62 · ARL Academic Law Library Statistics 2009–2010
Question
Number
Footnote
MINNESOTA, cont.
12 Format breakdown not available. Total AV count for Law Library is 2,537.
37 Breakdown not available. See Main UMN figures.
MISSOURI
1.b.i Volumes added will fluctuate from year to year depending on the level of acquisition.
1.b.ii Volumes withdrawn will fluctuate from year to year depending on the level of withdrawals.
5, 5.a Corrected count from 2008-2009.
5.b, 5.b.iv Current count for serial titles received but not purchased.
14 Represents an effort to increase law related videos.
16 Represents a shift to emphasis on electronic acquisitions.
16.a Represents pricing for the monographs selected in 2009-2010.
16.c Increase is due to an increase in the cost of other library materials. Editor's note: The figure for Ongoing Electronic
Resource Purchases (question 23) was adjusted so that the Total Electronic Resource Purchases is not higher than Total
Library Materials Expenditures. The adjustment was added to "Other Library Materials". Original figure of $5,601
adjusted to $151,551.
17 No contract binding in 2009-2010 to save funds for other higher priority needs.
18.c Students worked fewer hours in 2009-2010.
22 Purchases vary from year to year.
23 Percent change is negative due to an adjustment to our figure for 2009-2010. The original figure, $422,464, reflected a
27% increase over our 2008-2009 figure, echoing our increased emphasis on electronic purchases in 2009-2010. Editor's
note: Adjusted Ongoing Electronic Resource Purchases from $422,464 to $276,514 so that the Total Electronic Resource
Purchases is not higher than Total Library Materials Expenditures. The difference was shifted to question 16.c.
24.a Reflects a decision to prepay more 2009-2010 to lower costs next year.
25 Fewer computer and hardware purchases were needed in 2009-2010.
36 Driven by the number of requests received.
MONTREAL
All figures are as of 05/31/2010.
1.a Volumes held June 30, 2009 revised to 183,218.
16 Percent changes in excess of +/-10% over the 2008-2009 figures for the sub parts of question 16 are due to the weeding
work we have done in 2009-2010 in our physical collections. These decreases resulted in the decrease in Total Library
Materials Expenditures overall.
16.a While much of our collection was weeded in 2009-2010, the law library had a major increase in monographs due to
a special budget that helps us raise the bar in our law monographs collection. Hence the increase in monographs
expenditures for the law library in 2009-2010.
16-26 Expenditures as reported in Canadian dollars: (16a) $239,553 (16b) $579,272 (16c) $0 (16d) $0 (16) $818,825 (17) $4,449
(18a) $399,976 (18b) $367,318 (18c) $0 (18) $767,294 (20) $8,997 (21) $1,599,565 (22) $138,000 (23) $231,918 (24a) $0 (24b) $0
(25) $0 (26) $0.
22 In 2008-2009 we focused on increasing our electronics collections, specifically e-books.
NEBRASKA
1.a Volumes held June 30, 2009 revised to 421,810.
Question
Number
Footnote
MINNESOTA, cont.
12 Format breakdown not available. Total AV count for Law Library is 2,537.
37 Breakdown not available. See Main UMN figures.
MISSOURI
1.b.i Volumes added will fluctuate from year to year depending on the level of acquisition.
1.b.ii Volumes withdrawn will fluctuate from year to year depending on the level of withdrawals.
5, 5.a Corrected count from 2008-2009.
5.b, 5.b.iv Current count for serial titles received but not purchased.
14 Represents an effort to increase law related videos.
16 Represents a shift to emphasis on electronic acquisitions.
16.a Represents pricing for the monographs selected in 2009-2010.
16.c Increase is due to an increase in the cost of other library materials. Editor's note: The figure for Ongoing Electronic
Resource Purchases (question 23) was adjusted so that the Total Electronic Resource Purchases is not higher than Total
Library Materials Expenditures. The adjustment was added to "Other Library Materials". Original figure of $5,601
adjusted to $151,551.
17 No contract binding in 2009-2010 to save funds for other higher priority needs.
18.c Students worked fewer hours in 2009-2010.
22 Purchases vary from year to year.
23 Percent change is negative due to an adjustment to our figure for 2009-2010. The original figure, $422,464, reflected a
27% increase over our 2008-2009 figure, echoing our increased emphasis on electronic purchases in 2009-2010. Editor's
note: Adjusted Ongoing Electronic Resource Purchases from $422,464 to $276,514 so that the Total Electronic Resource
Purchases is not higher than Total Library Materials Expenditures. The difference was shifted to question 16.c.
24.a Reflects a decision to prepay more 2009-2010 to lower costs next year.
25 Fewer computer and hardware purchases were needed in 2009-2010.
36 Driven by the number of requests received.
MONTREAL
All figures are as of 05/31/2010.
1.a Volumes held June 30, 2009 revised to 183,218.
16 Percent changes in excess of +/-10% over the 2008-2009 figures for the sub parts of question 16 are due to the weeding
work we have done in 2009-2010 in our physical collections. These decreases resulted in the decrease in Total Library
Materials Expenditures overall.
16.a While much of our collection was weeded in 2009-2010, the law library had a major increase in monographs due to
a special budget that helps us raise the bar in our law monographs collection. Hence the increase in monographs
expenditures for the law library in 2009-2010.
16-26 Expenditures as reported in Canadian dollars: (16a) $239,553 (16b) $579,272 (16c) $0 (16d) $0 (16) $818,825 (17) $4,449
(18a) $399,976 (18b) $367,318 (18c) $0 (18) $767,294 (20) $8,997 (21) $1,599,565 (22) $138,000 (23) $231,918 (24a) $0 (24b) $0
(25) $0 (26) $0.
22 In 2008-2009 we focused on increasing our electronics collections, specifically e-books.
NEBRASKA
1.a Volumes held June 30, 2009 revised to 421,810.
