51 ARL Academic Law Library Statistics 2014–2015
Question
Number
Footnote
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.
Question
Number
Footnote
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.
