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Question Number Footnote
OHIO STATE
11 The majority of Ohio State’s fringe benefits are based upon an official designated percent of 31%.
The official designated percent for the Law Library is 35.2%.
18–20 n/a
OREGON
Library branches included: Jaqua Law Library is only library included in the Law Library report.
7.b Normal serials inflation for law titles.
9 Last year’s number was unusual because of furniture purchases.
10 Health care retirement payroll taxes roughly 5% miscellaneous including bus pass, worker’s
comp. fee, etc.
11 Health care premium cost plus 30%.
15, 16 Reduction due to drop in law school enrollment.
17 Circulation increase may be due to greater use of physical library by non-law students.
PENNSYLVANIA STATE
Library branches included: Penn State Dickinson School of Law H. Laddie Montague, Jr. Law
Library located in University Park, PA and Carlisle, PA.
18 Law Library metrics for e-resource usage cannot be extracted from main university data.
19, 20 Due to incompatibilities within our reporting systems for electronic resources, we do not feel we
can produce accurate use figures for this fiscal year. We are therefore not reporting data for lines
19 and 20.
RUTGERS
1 There has been an overall increase in titles as we bring in more Marcive catalog records for
our DOCUS collection. This did not affect our overall volume count because of the substantial
weeding of duplicate volumes. [Newark Law Library]
2 Approximately 60% of the print collection was physically counted. The other 40% was counted
by sampling. Electronic records were counted by bibliographic information and information
supplied by the vendors. [Newark Law Library]
7 With declining enrollment, there has been a decrease in the student library fee. We had to cut
our overall material purchasing. [Newark Law Library]
7.a The 2013 figure included the one-time purchase of two electronic literature collections. We did
not make similar purchases this year. [Newark Law Library]
8.a One of our senior professional librarians retired. 2013 was the last fiscal year that his salary was
being paid. [Newark Law Library]
8.c In previous years, our reported student salaries did not include Federal Work Study funds,
which was an error. Including work-study funded jobs with other student worker’s salaries
resulted in a significant increase. Additionally, the pay rate for the part-time assistants increased.
[Camden Law Library]
8.c We have significantly increased the use of non-work-study student labor. These graduate
students are no longer eligible for work study but they are fully trained. Fringe benefits for these
students (FICA, Medicare, etc.) are covered in the operations figure in Question 9. [Newark Law
Library]
13.c This number is higher to reflect a student assistant that was hired in the summer to cover
circulation and special projects. [Camden Law Library]
Question Number Footnote
OHIO STATE
11 The majority of Ohio State’s fringe benefits are based upon an official designated percent of 31%.
The official designated percent for the Law Library is 35.2%.
18–20 n/a
OREGON
Library branches included: Jaqua Law Library is only library included in the Law Library report.
7.b Normal serials inflation for law titles.
9 Last year’s number was unusual because of furniture purchases.
10 Health care retirement payroll taxes roughly 5% miscellaneous including bus pass, worker’s
comp. fee, etc.
11 Health care premium cost plus 30%.
15, 16 Reduction due to drop in law school enrollment.
17 Circulation increase may be due to greater use of physical library by non-law students.
PENNSYLVANIA STATE
Library branches included: Penn State Dickinson School of Law H. Laddie Montague, Jr. Law
Library located in University Park, PA and Carlisle, PA.
18 Law Library metrics for e-resource usage cannot be extracted from main university data.
19, 20 Due to incompatibilities within our reporting systems for electronic resources, we do not feel we
can produce accurate use figures for this fiscal year. We are therefore not reporting data for lines
19 and 20.
RUTGERS
1 There has been an overall increase in titles as we bring in more Marcive catalog records for
our DOCUS collection. This did not affect our overall volume count because of the substantial
weeding of duplicate volumes. [Newark Law Library]
2 Approximately 60% of the print collection was physically counted. The other 40% was counted
by sampling. Electronic records were counted by bibliographic information and information
supplied by the vendors. [Newark Law Library]
7 With declining enrollment, there has been a decrease in the student library fee. We had to cut
our overall material purchasing. [Newark Law Library]
7.a The 2013 figure included the one-time purchase of two electronic literature collections. We did
not make similar purchases this year. [Newark Law Library]
8.a One of our senior professional librarians retired. 2013 was the last fiscal year that his salary was
being paid. [Newark Law Library]
8.c In previous years, our reported student salaries did not include Federal Work Study funds,
which was an error. Including work-study funded jobs with other student worker’s salaries
resulted in a significant increase. Additionally, the pay rate for the part-time assistants increased.
[Camden Law Library]
8.c We have significantly increased the use of non-work-study student labor. These graduate
students are no longer eligible for work study but they are fully trained. Fringe benefits for these
students (FICA, Medicare, etc.) are covered in the operations figure in Question 9. [Newark Law
Library]
13.c This number is higher to reflect a student assistant that was hired in the summer to cover
circulation and special projects. [Camden Law Library]
