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CASE WESTERN RESERVE cont.
3 The Law Library uses a combination of physical volume count and bibliographic data extraction
in calculating total volume count. Print volume count is performed physically while electronic
resources are counted through bibliographic extraction.
CHICAGO
8.a In 2013–2014, the library experienced retirements and other departures of long-serving staff
earning higher salaries than the staff hired to fill those positions. There also were several months
when positions were vacant.
8.c Student expenditures had been higher in previous years due to hiring of student employees for
special projects. The library returned to more typical staffing levels in 2013–14 but also reduced
some student hours for budgetary reasons.
10 The university’s fringe benefit rates are calculated by Sponsored Award Accounting annually
and negotiated with the Department of Health and Human Services. Rates are calculated for
benefit eligible (receive full benefits). In addition, a federal rate is calculated that is the same as
the benefit eligible rate excluding unallowable dependent tuition remission benefit expenses.
This rate is only applied to salaries charged to federal awards. Some of the major fringe benefit
cost categories are: health insurance, retirement, FICA/Medicare, tuition remission, workman’s
compensation, and unemployment insurance. Fringe benefit expenses also include short/long-
term disability, life insurance, temporary shutdown, staff/faculty assistance, child/elder care,
employee physicals, training, and flex-transportation/medical/dependent.
11 This percent is applied to all staff except those with salary paid from federal awards.
21, 22 The number of filled or lending requests vary by the collection needs of the requesting
libraries and naturally fluctuates from year to year based on faculty research needs. For 2014,
the fluctuations also are attributable to the library’s participation in UBorrow, a direct ILL
borrowing/lending system of the CIC, and participation in BorrowDirect, a resource sharing
system of Ivy League institutions.
CINCINNATI
4 This number has increased substantially because of the manual creation of a couple thousand
bibliographic records for online resources, including CALLI Lessons, BNA, and some Hein
databases. Purchased 2,451 bibliographic records for the West Law Treatises from Cassidy
Cataloging Company. Added 20,000 bibliographic records from ProQuest for Congressional
Hearings items to replace the microfiche titles that were deleted during the year. Added 3,653
bibliographic records for the 19th Century Legal Treatises Collection for the equivalent electronic
titles to replace the same number of microfiche titles that were deleted and discarded.
11 Fringe benefits rates are dependent upon staff category according to the following: Faculty 41.1%
Staff 33.2%.
COLORADO
1 Titles held this year represents the MARC 245 field in all bibliographic records for which the
law library provides stewardship. (All former annual title counts followed the instructions from
2008 which did not include titles “that were added to the collection as the result of a one-time
download.”)
2 Volume count represents all the item records attached to bibliographic records for which the law
library provides stewardship. This includes e-books from MyiLibrary.
18–20 Our two most used databases changed from regular searches to federated searches per
COUNTER definitions (WestLaw Classic to WestLaw Next and Lexis.com to Lexis Advance).
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