ARL Academic Law Library Statistics 2014-2015

Morris, Shaneka; Roebuck, Gary

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CHICAGO cont.
19 This number includes searches in: CIAO, LegalTrac, and LLMC. There has been a marked decrease in
the reporting of this usage among non-COUNTER compliant vendors.
21 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 2015, 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.
23 D’Angelo does not have an electronic counter, so a gate count is not available.
CINCINNATI
10 Fringe benefits include leave, insurance premium contributions, employer retirement contributions,
and dependent tuition remission.
11 Official fringe rates vary by employee level. 35.8% for faculty librarians, 41.0% for administrative staff,
and 53.5% for support staff.
12 $858,794 for the institution included in main report.
23 Gate count is not recorded.
COLORADO
12 The Law Library consortial expense data is not available this year.
COLUMBIA
21 Includes 1,572 from fee-based service.
CONNECTICUT
10 Includes health and dental Insurance, retirement contribution, and worker’s compensation.
13.a In 2014–2015, we employed 10.5 professional staff and 5.5 support staff.
16 While the number of reference questions is lower than last year, the complexity of questions increased.
18–20 This number includes only EBSCO, Edinburg University Press, Gale, IngentaConnect &ProQuest.
Other databases are not COUNTER compliant. We are not able to obtain use statistics from a number
of our databases subscriptions including Westlaw, Lexis, BNA, Bloomberg. The remainder of our
databases are subscribed to by the main campus libraries and are accounted for in their statistics.
18 This year we were able to obtain additional full-text article request data, which were not available last
year. This accounts for the increase in requests. Non-COUNTER Compliant statistics: Hein Online
article retrievals=60,534 CCH articles viewed=1,381 ALM pageviews=11,152 Leadership Directories
documents viewed=890 Data Plane=95 and LLMC Page views=406.
19 Last year we reported total number of searches in ProQuest and could not strip out LAW only
searches. This year we can, which accounts for the large dip in numbers. Non-COUNTER Compliant
statistics: Hein Online searches=16,234 CCH searches=609 and Data Planet searches=102.
20 Last year, we included federated searches from databases subscribed to by the main campus libraries,
from which we could not strip out non-Law searches. This accounts for the dip in numbers between
last year and this year.
CORNELL
For counts coded as “NA/UA”: Unless otherwise noted, counts for Law are included as part of the main
survey reporting, and are not broken out here.
2 Print volumes only. With 2009/10 forward, does not include any e-books. All e-book counts are
included in the main survey Law cannot be broken out.

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CHICAGO cont.
19 This number includes searches in: CIAO, LegalTrac, and LLMC. There has been a marked decrease in
the reporting of this usage among non-COUNTER compliant vendors.
21 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 2015, 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.
23 D’Angelo does not have an electronic counter, so a gate count is not available.
CINCINNATI
10 Fringe benefits include leave, insurance premium contributions, employer retirement contributions,
and dependent tuition remission.
11 Official fringe rates vary by employee level. 35.8% for faculty librarians, 41.0% for administrative staff,
and 53.5% for support staff.
12 $858,794 for the institution included in main report.
23 Gate count is not recorded.
COLORADO
12 The Law Library consortial expense data is not available this year.
COLUMBIA
21 Includes 1,572 from fee-based service.
CONNECTICUT
10 Includes health and dental Insurance, retirement contribution, and worker’s compensation.
13.a In 2014–2015, we employed 10.5 professional staff and 5.5 support staff.
16 While the number of reference questions is lower than last year, the complexity of questions increased.
18–20 This number includes only EBSCO, Edinburg University Press, Gale, IngentaConnect &ProQuest.
Other databases are not COUNTER compliant. We are not able to obtain use statistics from a number
of our databases subscriptions including Westlaw, Lexis, BNA, Bloomberg. The remainder of our
databases are subscribed to by the main campus libraries and are accounted for in their statistics.
18 This year we were able to obtain additional full-text article request data, which were not available last
year. This accounts for the increase in requests. Non-COUNTER Compliant statistics: Hein Online
article retrievals=60,534 CCH articles viewed=1,381 ALM pageviews=11,152 Leadership Directories
documents viewed=890 Data Plane=95 and LLMC Page views=406.
19 Last year we reported total number of searches in ProQuest and could not strip out LAW only
searches. This year we can, which accounts for the large dip in numbers. Non-COUNTER Compliant
statistics: Hein Online searches=16,234 CCH searches=609 and Data Planet searches=102.
20 Last year, we included federated searches from databases subscribed to by the main campus libraries,
from which we could not strip out non-Law searches. This accounts for the dip in numbers between
last year and this year.
CORNELL
For counts coded as “NA/UA”: Unless otherwise noted, counts for Law are included as part of the main
survey reporting, and are not broken out here.
2 Print volumes only. With 2009/10 forward, does not include any e-books. All e-book counts are
included in the main survey Law cannot be broken out.

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CASE WESTERN RESERVE
1 The Law Library also has access to a number of electronic resources that are counted only in the Main
Library’s statistics.
18–19 The law library’s answers to questions 18 and 19 for the 2014–2015 reporting period are significantly
lower than the figures we provided for the 2013–2014 reporting period. We attribute the reduced
number of full-text article requests and number of regular searches performed to several factors. First,
the numbers we reported in 2013–1204 were some of the highest numbers we’ve ever reported. The
numbers we are reporting for 2014–2015 are more in line with our yearly average (though still slightly
lower). Secondly, the total student enrollment at the law school was at an all-time low for recent years
during the 2014–1205 period and thus resulted in lesser usage of online resources. Third, our most
heavily used database provider, Westlaw, ceased offering free printing in May 2013. This resulted in
full-text article requests dropping significantly from Westlaw. Fourth, our new LLEAP program for
first year law students began in 2014 placed much less emphasis on legal research skills and database
searching than the previous CORE legal research and writing course had emphasized. As such, less
online searches were performed. Fifth, the law school did not offer an Advanced Legal Research
course during the 2014–2015 reporting period which caused less online searches to be performed.
Lastly, there were significantly fewer students fulfilling writing requirements during the 2014–2015
reporting period. This, again, would result in less online research being conducted. Taken together,
these things would be indicative of the lower number of full-text article requests and lower number of
regular searches performed during the 2014–2015 reporting period.
CHICAGO
8.c, 13.c The increase in student hours and salaries for student employees is attributable to separate funding
from the Law School for project work. This funding includes support for the Judith M. Wright
Fellowship and student employees paid for by the Law School to work on Chicago Unbound.
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 which 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.”
13.b D’Angelo is down two full-time support staff positions from FY14 to FY15.
14 The number of library presentations to groups varies each year based on requests received by faculty
and the number and schedule for student programming.
17 The decrease in number of initial circulations is due to the implementation of a new library system
in 2014–2015. This implementation caused two changes that affected the circulation transactions at
the D’Angelo Law Library. Frequent system interruptions and downtimes precluded recording some,
not insignificant, percentage of transactions. The new library system records circulation transactions
differently and does not attribute loans to the holding library.
18 This number includes document views from COUNTER compliant vendors: Brill, OUP, and Wiley
and non-COUNTER compliant vendors: ALM, Bloomberg BNA, ChinaLawInfo, CIAO, E&E news,
HeinOnline, IntelliConnect, LegalTrac, LLMC, PACER, and WorldTradeLaw.

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CORNELL cont.
8 The requested breakouts cannot be provided. This figure includes expenditures for academic and
exempt staff as well as expenditures for non-academic, non-exempt staff.
13.a Includes expenditures for academic and exempt staff.
13.b Includes expenditures for non-academic, non-exempt staff.
13 Excludes student FTE all student FTE are included in the main survey. Excludes any short-term
temporary staff and any positions that were temporarily vacant on June 30th.
14–15 Information transactions and presentations to groups include only those interactions staff recorded in
Count It, CUL’s locally built system for tracking public services transactions.
16.a Transactions sampled only at the circulation desk.
17 Excludes counts for Law volumes shelved at the remote storage facility. Includes returnable ILL
lending transactions.
21 Starting with FY15, ILL counts exclude Borrow Direct requests filled, which are now processed
centrally only.
DUKE
Library branches included: Goodson Law Library.
7.a The budget was increased for the purchase of digital collections.
7.c Print journal purchases decreased reducing binding needs.
8.c The number of student assistants increased by 33% this year the wages for student assistants
increased accordingly (37%).
13.c More students hired during 2014-2015 to cover evenings and weekends when full-time staff are not
available.
16 Several sampling weeks in 2014–2015 were affected by expected or unexpected desk closures
(including University holidays, weekend staff illnesses, and adverse weather closures). The most
dramatic decrease in sampling numbers occurred in a summer month during which all reference
service was conducted remotely from librarian offices. The remainder of the sampling weeks, which
were not impacted by reference desk or library closures, generally tracked more closely to the 2013–
2014 numbers for each month, and even exceeded them by 27% in December 2015.
21 We accidentally flipped the numbers for in-bound and out-bound ILL last year the number of filled
requests provided to other libraries should have been 805 in FY14 instead of 1,107.
23 There is no available gate count data for Goodson Law Library.
EMORY
All figures are as of 08/31/2015, unless otherwise noted.
7.a We had the unusual opportunity to buy some expensive rare books and manuscripts this year.
8.b The increase in support salaries was caused by two primary factors: (1) a position that remained open
during much of FY 2014 was filled throughout FY 2015 and, (2) a support position was added in FY
2015.
13.b A support staff position was added for FY 2015.
18–20 Reported at the system level for all libraries on the MAIN library form.
FLORIDA
4 This was reported in error last year.

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