57 ARL Academic Law Library Statistics 2014–2015
Question
Number
Footnote
OHIO STATE
Library branches included: Law Library.
12 Included in Main Number.
23 A system glitch prevented us from being able to provide this information.
OREGON
Library branches included: This is for the Jaqua Law Library only.
We have a new ILS, and collection counts vary significantly from previous years. This may also be
impacting the number of database searches and federated searches.
2 Running reports from a new ILS has produced significant differences in volume count. We will use the
numbers from the new system going forward unless we can determine that this is in error.
4 Some titles previous reported as “Law Library” now included in main library statistics.
7.c Reduced binding of physical volumes.
9 Costs for re-configuring space, purchasing new furniture.
10 Includes health insurance premium, retirement benefits, payroll taxes (medicare and social security),
workers comp premiums, and bus pass.
11 There is no set percentage. It works out to roughly 31% of salary plus $14,000 annually per employee
for the health insurance premium.
13.c The is a normal level of student assistants after completion of a large print withdrawal project the
previous fiscal year.
14, 16–17 Increased activity represents increased emphasis on undergraduate offerings in the Law School (e.g.,
Conflict Management).
23 Amount extrapolated from sample weeks.
PENNSYLVANIA
21 We believe a digit was inadvertently left off of the 2014 submission for this question—the variance
between 2013–2014 and 2014–2015 should be negligible.
PENNSYLVANIA STATE
Library branches included: H. Laddie Montague, Jr. Law Library, Dickinson Law, Pennsylvania State
University, 150 S. College Street, Carlisle, PA 17013 [Penn State Dickinson Law (Carlisle)].
Library branches included: H. Laddie Montague, Jr. Law Library, Penn State Law, Pennsylvania State
University, University Park, PA 16802 [Penn State Law (University Park)].
Collections data above reflects some duplication among our two law libraries.
18–20 Law Library metrics for e-resource usage cannot be disaggregated from main university data. [Penn
State Dickinson Law (Carlisle)], [Penn State Law (University Park)].
23 Gate counts are not kept either digitally or manually. [Penn State Law (University Park)]
RUTGERS
6 Overall budget was reduced for fiscal year ending June 2015. As a result it was necessary to
significantly reduce our overall expenditures, which therefore affected the total spent. [Camden Law
Library]
6 Increased primarily due to (1) the purchase of equipment (a digital scanner and peripheral software
for our New Jersey law digital scanning initiative) and (2) an increase in both staff and professional
salaries (the result of a union negotiating initiative). [Newark Law Library]
Question
Number
Footnote
OHIO STATE
Library branches included: Law Library.
12 Included in Main Number.
23 A system glitch prevented us from being able to provide this information.
OREGON
Library branches included: This is for the Jaqua Law Library only.
We have a new ILS, and collection counts vary significantly from previous years. This may also be
impacting the number of database searches and federated searches.
2 Running reports from a new ILS has produced significant differences in volume count. We will use the
numbers from the new system going forward unless we can determine that this is in error.
4 Some titles previous reported as “Law Library” now included in main library statistics.
7.c Reduced binding of physical volumes.
9 Costs for re-configuring space, purchasing new furniture.
10 Includes health insurance premium, retirement benefits, payroll taxes (medicare and social security),
workers comp premiums, and bus pass.
11 There is no set percentage. It works out to roughly 31% of salary plus $14,000 annually per employee
for the health insurance premium.
13.c The is a normal level of student assistants after completion of a large print withdrawal project the
previous fiscal year.
14, 16–17 Increased activity represents increased emphasis on undergraduate offerings in the Law School (e.g.,
Conflict Management).
23 Amount extrapolated from sample weeks.
PENNSYLVANIA
21 We believe a digit was inadvertently left off of the 2014 submission for this question—the variance
between 2013–2014 and 2014–2015 should be negligible.
PENNSYLVANIA STATE
Library branches included: H. Laddie Montague, Jr. Law Library, Dickinson Law, Pennsylvania State
University, 150 S. College Street, Carlisle, PA 17013 [Penn State Dickinson Law (Carlisle)].
Library branches included: H. Laddie Montague, Jr. Law Library, Penn State Law, Pennsylvania State
University, University Park, PA 16802 [Penn State Law (University Park)].
Collections data above reflects some duplication among our two law libraries.
18–20 Law Library metrics for e-resource usage cannot be disaggregated from main university data. [Penn
State Dickinson Law (Carlisle)], [Penn State Law (University Park)].
23 Gate counts are not kept either digitally or manually. [Penn State Law (University Park)]
RUTGERS
6 Overall budget was reduced for fiscal year ending June 2015. As a result it was necessary to
significantly reduce our overall expenditures, which therefore affected the total spent. [Camden Law
Library]
6 Increased primarily due to (1) the purchase of equipment (a digital scanner and peripheral software
for our New Jersey law digital scanning initiative) and (2) an increase in both staff and professional
salaries (the result of a union negotiating initiative). [Newark Law Library]
