ARL Statistics 2004-2005

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QUESTION NUMBER NOTES
24 2003‐04figurereflectedcompensationsavingsusedtosupportcomputerexpenditures.
35 Includes 411 requests filled by the Center for Research Libraries.
40, 42 Prior to 2004‐05,part‐timestudentswerereportedtoIPEDSasFTEs now, they are reported as a
head count.
CINCINNATI
Includes the University Libraries, as well as Law and Medical. Excludes Raymond Walters
College and Clermont College. Volumes held June 30, 2004 revised to 3,051,048 to reflect
adjustments in retro cataloging.
5 The majority of government documents are not counted in the count of Current Serials, though
some have been classed in the LC collection and are considered ʺregularʺ periodicals.
17.a Increase reflects a change in the definition of ʺprofessional staffʺinoneunit.
21 Increase due to the purchase of major backfile collections.
22 Decrease due to some payments to the consortium, which were paid in 2003‐04.
23.a Increase due to various fiscal year patterns.
26.c Budget loss explains the drop in FTE student assistants.
34 Figure includes activity for the Universityʹstwotwo‐yearcolleges: Raymond Walters College and
Clermont College. Decrease due to a change in lending priority within the OhioLINK consortium
institutions change into and out of position as priority lender in different years.
35 Figure includes activity for the Universityʹstwotwo‐yearcolleges: Raymond Walters College and
Clermont College.
CANADA INSTITUTE FOR SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION
All figures are as of March 31, 2005 and include: 11 regional CISTI sites, in Victoria, Vancouver,
Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Montreal, Boucherville, London, Halifax, New Brunswick, Charlottetown
and St. Johnʹs and 6 Ottawa‐basedNRCInformationCentresstaffedbyCISTIInformation
Specialists in addition to the main CISTI building.
15‐25 Expenditures as reported in Canadian dollars: (15a) $536,500 (15b) $10,702,057 (15c) $879,790
(15d) $68,209 (15) $12,186,556 (16) UA/NA (17a) UA/NA (17b) UA/NA (17c) UA/NA (17)
$19,367,085 (19) $13,315,444 (20) $44,859,000 (21) UA/NA (22) $1,911,793 (23a) UA/NA (23b)
UA/NA (24) $3,290,178 (25) UA/NA.
29 Data not collected in 2005. Figures for question (29) and (30) have matched in past years, but
reflect the number of participants.
COLORADO
3 Volume count is 90% bibliographic and 10% physical.
15.d Includes: Consortia ($147,003, consisting of Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries membership
[$88,566], Center for Research Libraries membership [$50,337], Greater Western Library Alliance
membership [$8,100]) Membership ($25,205, consisting of Inter‐universityConsortiumfor
Political &Social Research [$12,730], ARL [$6,500], CNI (Coalition for Networked Information
[$5,975]) Korean cataloging records ($1,718) Marcive elec. shipping lists and labels ($3,633) III LC
authority database ($5,900) III maintenance ($94,200) Interlibrary loan ($8,798) Storage of archival
materials ($27,360) Pinhole camera ($153) Travel to view gift collection ($359).
19 2003‐04figureshouldbereducedby$100,000cashtransfertocopycenterauxiliarywhichwas
double‐counted.
29 A couple of departments have revised their methods of counting presentations to better reflect the
ARL instructions. This lowered the figure significantly in comparison to previous years.
31 Reflects more accurate counts now uniformly based on ARL definition of reference transactions.

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24 2003‐04figurereflectedcompensationsavingsusedtosupportcomputerexpenditures.
35 Includes 411 requests filled by the Center for Research Libraries.
40, 42 Prior to 2004‐05,part‐timestudentswerereportedtoIPEDSasFTEs now, they are reported as a
head count.
CINCINNATI
Includes the University Libraries, as well as Law and Medical. Excludes Raymond Walters
College and Clermont College. Volumes held June 30, 2004 revised to 3,051,048 to reflect
adjustments in retro cataloging.
5 The majority of government documents are not counted in the count of Current Serials, though
some have been classed in the LC collection and are considered ʺregularʺ periodicals.
17.a Increase reflects a change in the definition of ʺprofessional staffʺinoneunit.
21 Increase due to the purchase of major backfile collections.
22 Decrease due to some payments to the consortium, which were paid in 2003‐04.
23.a Increase due to various fiscal year patterns.
26.c Budget loss explains the drop in FTE student assistants.
34 Figure includes activity for the Universityʹstwotwo‐yearcolleges: Raymond Walters College and
Clermont College. Decrease due to a change in lending priority within the OhioLINK consortium
institutions change into and out of position as priority lender in different years.
35 Figure includes activity for the Universityʹstwotwo‐yearcolleges: Raymond Walters College and
Clermont College.
CANADA INSTITUTE FOR SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION
All figures are as of March 31, 2005 and include: 11 regional CISTI sites, in Victoria, Vancouver,
Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Montreal, Boucherville, London, Halifax, New Brunswick, Charlottetown
and St. Johnʹs and 6 Ottawa‐basedNRCInformationCentresstaffedbyCISTIInformation
Specialists in addition to the main CISTI building.
15‐25 Expenditures as reported in Canadian dollars: (15a) $536,500 (15b) $10,702,057 (15c) $879,790
(15d) $68,209 (15) $12,186,556 (16) UA/NA (17a) UA/NA (17b) UA/NA (17c) UA/NA (17)
$19,367,085 (19) $13,315,444 (20) $44,859,000 (21) UA/NA (22) $1,911,793 (23a) UA/NA (23b)
UA/NA (24) $3,290,178 (25) UA/NA.
29 Data not collected in 2005. Figures for question (29) and (30) have matched in past years, but
reflect the number of participants.
COLORADO
3 Volume count is 90% bibliographic and 10% physical.
15.d Includes: Consortia ($147,003, consisting of Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries membership
[$88,566], Center for Research Libraries membership [$50,337], Greater Western Library Alliance
membership [$8,100]) Membership ($25,205, consisting of Inter‐universityConsortiumfor
Political &Social Research [$12,730], ARL [$6,500], CNI (Coalition for Networked Information
[$5,975]) Korean cataloging records ($1,718) Marcive elec. shipping lists and labels ($3,633) III LC
authority database ($5,900) III maintenance ($94,200) Interlibrary loan ($8,798) Storage of archival
materials ($27,360) Pinhole camera ($153) Travel to view gift collection ($359).
19 2003‐04figureshouldbereducedby$100,000cashtransfertocopycenterauxiliarywhichwas
double‐counted.
29 A couple of departments have revised their methods of counting presentations to better reflect the
ARL instructions. This lowered the figure significantly in comparison to previous years.
31 Reflects more accurate counts now uniformly based on ARL definition of reference transactions.

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QUESTION NUMBER NOTES
and the Center for Library and Instructional Computing Services. The Biomedical Library and
Medical Center Library statistics are combined for the Health Sciences Library Survey. Volumes
held June 30, 2004 revised to 3,071,461 to include 68,826 e‐books.
1.b.i Includes 34,612 e‐booksaddedin2004‐05.
2 Excludes 10,470 e‐bookspurchasedforalllibraries,includingtheHealthSciences.
11 Withdrew 31,000 slides from the librariesʹcollections.
15.b Includes monographs and publisher series. Includes all formats. Includes electronic databases
subscribed to annually.
21 Increase due to the addition of a back run of Web of Science.
27 Service points closed/merged to accommodate temporary move into the main library building
during construction of the Biomedical Library: maps to reference biomedical to periodicals.
32, 34 2003‐04figuresrevisedto(32)495,031 (34) 60,850.
CALIFORNIA, SANTA BARBARA
4.b Figure reflects proper counting of e‐journalsreceivedinlicensedpackagesthroughaconsortium.
15.c Included in monograph expenditures (15a).
23.a Decrease due to prepayment of OCLC charges for 2005 that were made in 2004.
CASE WESTERN RESERVE
1.b.ii Major weeding project undertaken at the School of Applied Social Sciences Library in conjunction
with reclassification of the collection from Dewey to L.C.
8 Major weeding of out‐of‐dateandunusableformattedmaterialsattheSchoolofAppliedSocial
Sciences library.
15.d Includes: Dialog ($632) CNI membership ($5,800) ICPSR membership ($12,730) ARL membership
($20,150) SPARC membership ($5,000) TEI membership ($1,000) CLIR membership ($3,500)
Theses ($17,592) Council on Social Work Education membership ($380).
CENTER FOR RESEARCH LIBRARIES
15.a, 15.b In 2004‐05CRLstoppedearlyrenewalofserialsubscriptionsforthedissertationexchanges. The
cost of these subscriptions had always been counted as the cost to receive the dissertation
monographs. However, since early renewal was done in 2004 for 2005, monographs expenditures
for 2005 appear to have decreased.
CHICAGO
John Crerar Library is a central science library with a biomedical collection for health sciences
many numbers are percentages as a result. Data for the ARL survey are matched as closely as
possible to data compiled and reported for the Association of Academic Health Sciences Librariesʹ
(AAHSL) Annual Statistics of Medical School Libraries in the United States and Canada. Volumes
held June 30, 2004 was adjusted to 7,205,924 to include 81,545 volumes that were undercounted
during the period 2000‐04.
2 Approximately 66% of this total represents a title count.
8‐10,12,13 Excludes unprocessed and partially processed items.
21, 22 The increase in computer files and decrease in subscriptions represents an emphasis on backfiles
and other one‐timepurchases,ashifttowardthepurchaseofpackagesratherthansubscriptions
when that option exists and continued refinement of our internal categorizations.
23.a Includes standard ongoing operating costs only.
23.b Figure is estimated.

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41 Law students (first‐professional)wereomittedfromfullandpart‐timegradstudentsinFall2003,
thus 2003‐04figuresshouldberevisedto(41)2,121 (42) 3,927.
COLORADO STATE
4.a Change is due to interpretation of what is now included in this item.
15, 15.a, 20 Changes due to completion of flood related projects.
21 Figure reflects shift to online resources.
COLUMBIA
Includes two Columbia University affiliates (not branch libraries): Barnard College Library, which
was also included in 2003‐04,andTeachersCollegewhichisincludedin2004‐05forthefirsttime.
Volumes held June 30, 2004 revised to 9,085,859 to include 5,169 Oral History volumes.
2 Number of monographic volumes purchased includes 159,844 e‐books,someofwhichwere
purchased in prior years but cataloged in 2004‐05.
8 Excludes Butler Library.
14 All Columbia expenditures and Personnel data (FTE) exclude Electronic Publishing Initiative at
Columbia (EPIC).
15.d Includes costs associated with maintenance of collection (e.g., shipping, supplies, relocation,
memberships)
16 Decrease reflects re‐categorizationofexpenses.
CONNECTICUT
Includes Art &Design Avery Point Dodd Research Center Greater Hartford Map Media Music
&Dramatic Arts Pharmacy Stamford Torrington and Waterbury libraries.
4 Increase due to a change in the state‐providedelectronicserialspackage.
15.b, 15.c 2003‐04figureswereincorrect.
21 Increase due to an internal coding change.
CORNELL
Includes the Adelson, Africana, Annex, Engineering, Fine Arts, Hotel, Industrial &Labor
Relations, Kroch (Rare &Mss. Collections), Law, Management, Mann/Entomology, Mathematics,
Music, Olin/Kroch (Asia Collections), Physical Sciences, Uris, and Veterinary Libraries on the
Ithaca campus, and the New York Agricultural Experiment Station Library in Geneva, NY.
Excludes the Medical College Library in New York, NY. Volumes held June 30, 2004 revised to
7,537,145 to include corrections to Annex volume counts, and 240,986 additional e‐books,
including: Early English Books Online (68,463) Eighteenth Century Collections Online (136,209)
Evans Early American Imprints Digital Collection (36,303) NetLibrary (11 excludes 12,021
NetLibrary titles Cornell has perpetual access to with a consortium).
1 Decrease largely reflects the completion in 2003‐04ofthebacklogreductionproject. To a much
smaller degree, it may also reflect a decrease in the number of unit orders placed due to the
performance of the dollar.
1.b.i Decrease reflects the completion in 2003‐04ofaprojecttoeliminatethecatalogingbacklog the
process of transitioning from acquiring print and electronic to electronic‐onlyserialswhere
appropriate a decrease in the number of unit orders placed due, in some part, to the performance
of the dollar and a reduction in the acquisition of multiple copies.
4 Includes some unnumbered monographic series. Estimate of e‐serialsdoesnotexcludenon‐
current titles packaged with current titles.
9 Figure is in cubic feet.
15.a Decrease due to the fact that 2003‐04figureincludedfundsforthelargepurchaseofthe

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