ARL Statistics and Measurement Program PUBLICATIONS AND SERVICES http://www.arl.org/ ARL Academic Law Library Statistics ISSN 1538-8999 • Back issues are available • Standing order offered Yearly report of data for collections' size and growth, materials and operating expenditures, staffing, and public service activities in ARL university law libraries. Includes comparisons to the larger research collections at each university. ARL Academic Medical Library Statistics ISSN 1538-9006 • Back issues are available • Standing order offered Yearly report of data for collections' size and growth, materials and operating expenditures, staffing, and public service activities in ARL university medical libraries. Includes comparisons to the larger research collections at each university. ARL Preservation Statistics ISSN 1050-7442 • Back issues are available • Standing order offered Annual compilation of data on current levels of preservation efforts and reports on the key organizational, functional, and fiscal components comprising ARL preservation programs. ARL Statistics ISSN 0147-2135 • Back issues are available • Standing order offered Annual compilation of data on collection size and growth, materials and operating expenditures, staffing, and library services. The most comprehensive resource for information on research library operations and trends. User Surveys in Academic Libraries This workshop presents the basic concepts and steps for conducting a user survey: defining objectives, sampling, measurement scales, logistics, data analysis, and report writing. Electronic Publishing of Data Sets on the World Wide Web This three-day workshop is designed for librarians, information professionals, and educators. It provides hands-on experience in developing interfaces for publishing and analyzing social, economic, and other numeric data sets on the WWW. Customized Services For any dataset produced by ARL, one can request comparative institutional data and ARL will perform the analysis and provide tables and reports in the format best suited to the need. For more information on any of these products or services, please contact Martha Kyrillidou, Senior Program Officer for Statistics and Measurement, at 202-296-2296 or email at martha@arl.org.