48 · ARL Academic Law Library Statistics 2013–2014
Question Number Footnote
BOSTON COLLEGE cont.
22 The marked decrease in the number reported here for 2014 as compared to the figure reported
in 2013 is due to the fact that the Boston College Law Library has made deliberate strides
in acquiring online databases and other research tools to meet the research needs of our
community. We have also entered into consortial agreements that have given us access to a wider
and deeper breadth of on-demand access to research materials and resources. These strategic
additions to our collection have helped to decrease the number of requests from members of our
community for materials from other libraries and institutions.
BRIGHAM YOUNG
All figures are as of 12/31/2013.
Library branches included: Law Library.
11 Administrative Employees: 64.6% Faculty Employees: 60.7% Staff Employees: 84.1%.
12 NA/UA
13.c Decreased number of student employees.
14 There are fewer librarians who are teaching classes now.
19 Improved our database searching on the website to make it more user friendly.
CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
Questions 18–22 are only reported on the Main Library survey.
9 Fringe benefits are also included in this category. They weren’t included last year.
11 We have a 3-tiered rate system for assessing fringe benefit expenses. For FY2013–14 the
percentages of salary were: Academic 33.9%, Staff 41.5%, and Limited (temp) 17.3%. Students are
not assessed for fringe benefits.
CALIFORNIA, DAVIS
12 Included with Main Library.
CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES
10, 11 UCLA does not use official employee benefit rates for recording employee benefit expenditures.
UCLA employee benefit expenditures are recorded by the UCLA payroll system at the individual
employee level based on each employee’s eligibility for benefits and other criteria that may
impact the cost of one or more components of employee benefit expense. Year-to-year increase is
employee benefit expenditures is driven principally by the UC Regents mandated increase in the
employer contributions to the UC retirement plan.
CASE WESTERN RESERVE
1 The Law Library also has access to a number of electronic resources that are counted in the Main
Library’s statistics.
2 Includes bibliographic records for e-books contained in HeinOnline electronic collections, Gale’s
Making of Modern Law electronic collections, LLMC Digital collections and other electronic
resources that are cataloged at the individual title level. The individual bibliographic records for
these e-books were imported into our catalog during the 2012–13 and 2013–14 reporting periods
and are reflected in Question 4 [Electronic Books]. These are legal treatises [i.e., monographs
and integrating resources] the print counterparts of which would most definitely be counted as
books, not serials titles. We are not including electronic serial titles in Question 2. We purchased
or subscribed to the treatise titles as part of packages as opposed to individual purchases or
subscriptions to singular e-book titles but they are e-books none-the-less. We did not include
these titles in years prior to the 2013 survey as we did not have them cataloged at the individual
title level.
Question Number Footnote
BOSTON COLLEGE cont.
22 The marked decrease in the number reported here for 2014 as compared to the figure reported
in 2013 is due to the fact that the Boston College Law Library has made deliberate strides
in acquiring online databases and other research tools to meet the research needs of our
community. We have also entered into consortial agreements that have given us access to a wider
and deeper breadth of on-demand access to research materials and resources. These strategic
additions to our collection have helped to decrease the number of requests from members of our
community for materials from other libraries and institutions.
BRIGHAM YOUNG
All figures are as of 12/31/2013.
Library branches included: Law Library.
11 Administrative Employees: 64.6% Faculty Employees: 60.7% Staff Employees: 84.1%.
12 NA/UA
13.c Decreased number of student employees.
14 There are fewer librarians who are teaching classes now.
19 Improved our database searching on the website to make it more user friendly.
CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
Questions 18–22 are only reported on the Main Library survey.
9 Fringe benefits are also included in this category. They weren’t included last year.
11 We have a 3-tiered rate system for assessing fringe benefit expenses. For FY2013–14 the
percentages of salary were: Academic 33.9%, Staff 41.5%, and Limited (temp) 17.3%. Students are
not assessed for fringe benefits.
CALIFORNIA, DAVIS
12 Included with Main Library.
CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES
10, 11 UCLA does not use official employee benefit rates for recording employee benefit expenditures.
UCLA employee benefit expenditures are recorded by the UCLA payroll system at the individual
employee level based on each employee’s eligibility for benefits and other criteria that may
impact the cost of one or more components of employee benefit expense. Year-to-year increase is
employee benefit expenditures is driven principally by the UC Regents mandated increase in the
employer contributions to the UC retirement plan.
CASE WESTERN RESERVE
1 The Law Library also has access to a number of electronic resources that are counted in the Main
Library’s statistics.
2 Includes bibliographic records for e-books contained in HeinOnline electronic collections, Gale’s
Making of Modern Law electronic collections, LLMC Digital collections and other electronic
resources that are cataloged at the individual title level. The individual bibliographic records for
these e-books were imported into our catalog during the 2012–13 and 2013–14 reporting periods
and are reflected in Question 4 [Electronic Books]. These are legal treatises [i.e., monographs
and integrating resources] the print counterparts of which would most definitely be counted as
books, not serials titles. We are not including electronic serial titles in Question 2. We purchased
or subscribed to the treatise titles as part of packages as opposed to individual purchases or
subscriptions to singular e-book titles but they are e-books none-the-less. We did not include
these titles in years prior to the 2013 survey as we did not have them cataloged at the individual
title level.
