ARL Statistics 2010-2011

Kyrillidou, Martha; Morris, Shaneka; Roebuck, Gary

152 · ARL Statistics 2010–2011
PURDUE, cont.
20 The 40% increase in 2010-2011 was preceded by a 21% decrease in 2009-2010, due to year end timing. Supply price increases also
contributed to the variance.
22 Increase due to purchase of archives, backfiles, and e-book collections.
24.a Increase reflects greater OCLC costs for 2010-2011.
27.b Decrease due to staff accepting early retirement incentives, consolidation of some vacancies, and some vacancies not yet filled.
27.c Decrease largely due to reduction in weekend hours of several smaller libraries.
30 Increase due to strategic initiative focus on Information Literacy.
31 Decrease in total participants in spite of an increase in presentations is due to more accurate recording.
33-34 Decrease due to trend toward electronic resources.
36 Decrease reflects fewer requests due to focus on patron-driven acquisition.
43 Increase in graduate student enrollment, both full and part-time, due to increased national rankings.
QUEEN'S
All figures are as of 04/30/2011.
Library branches included: Stauffer Humanities and Social Sciences Douglas Engineering/Sciences WD Jordan Special
Collections Music Education Library.
Data from the Law and Health Sciences Library also included in the figures reported.
1.b.i Reduced reliance on print materials.
1.b.ii Completion of weeding projects.
3 Reduced reliance on print materials.
5, 5.a, 5.a.i Includes ALL Library locations including Law and Health Sciences libraries. Increase in the number of electronic serials available
through packages.
5.a.ii Includes ALL Library locations including Law and Health Sciences libraries.
16-26 Expenditures as reported in Canadian dollars: (16a) $1,353,526 (16b) $7,646,544 (16c) $132,066 (16d) $659,781 (16) $9,791,917 (17)
$56,003 (18a) $3,961,481 (18b) $3,719,888 (18c) $377,466 (18) $8,058,835 (20) $2,336,499 (21) $20,243,254 (22) $0 (23) $6,100,990 (24a)
$0 (24b) $560,309 (25) $330,276 (26) $7,294.
17 Increase emphasis on electronic serials means a reduction in print serials that require binding.
20 Now includes Fringe Benefits.
37-38, 40-43 As at November 2010.
39 As at October 2010.
RICE
Library branches included: Fondren, Business Information Center.
1 Includes 24,273 Texshare e-books, 54,617 government document e-books and 9,775 commercial e-books.
1.b Includes 7,100 government document e-books and 1,552 commercial e-books.
5 Increase due to some increases in paid titles and large increases in the number of free serials (described below).
5.b Increase due to strengthened commitment to representing free serials in catalog.
10 Manuscripts and archives reported in cubic feet.
12 Increase due to heightened demand for images to illustrate university centennial.
16.c Decrease due to lower microform acquisitions levels.
16.d Includes memberships ($168,064), ILL ($32,341), in-house binding supplies ($12,329) and bibliographic utilities ($209,860).
17 Decrease due to declining print subscriptions.
18 One FTE professional and 1 FTE student grant-funded.
18.c Special projects and staff losses in some areas have increased dependence on student assistants.
23 Increase due to uneven impact of budget cuts.
24.a Some of increase due to previous overage and record enhancements.

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152 · ARL Statistics 2010–2011
PURDUE, cont.
20 The 40% increase in 2010-2011 was preceded by a 21% decrease in 2009-2010, due to year end timing. Supply price increases also
contributed to the variance.
22 Increase due to purchase of archives, backfiles, and e-book collections.
24.a Increase reflects greater OCLC costs for 2010-2011.
27.b Decrease due to staff accepting early retirement incentives, consolidation of some vacancies, and some vacancies not yet filled.
27.c Decrease largely due to reduction in weekend hours of several smaller libraries.
30 Increase due to strategic initiative focus on Information Literacy.
31 Decrease in total participants in spite of an increase in presentations is due to more accurate recording.
33-34 Decrease due to trend toward electronic resources.
36 Decrease reflects fewer requests due to focus on patron-driven acquisition.
43 Increase in graduate student enrollment, both full and part-time, due to increased national rankings.
QUEEN'S
All figures are as of 04/30/2011.
Library branches included: Stauffer Humanities and Social Sciences Douglas Engineering/Sciences WD Jordan Special
Collections Music Education Library.
Data from the Law and Health Sciences Library also included in the figures reported.
1.b.i Reduced reliance on print materials.
1.b.ii Completion of weeding projects.
3 Reduced reliance on print materials.
5, 5.a, 5.a.i Includes ALL Library locations including Law and Health Sciences libraries. Increase in the number of electronic serials available
through packages.
5.a.ii Includes ALL Library locations including Law and Health Sciences libraries.
16-26 Expenditures as reported in Canadian dollars: (16a) $1,353,526 (16b) $7,646,544 (16c) $132,066 (16d) $659,781 (16) $9,791,917 (17)
$56,003 (18a) $3,961,481 (18b) $3,719,888 (18c) $377,466 (18) $8,058,835 (20) $2,336,499 (21) $20,243,254 (22) $0 (23) $6,100,990 (24a)
$0 (24b) $560,309 (25) $330,276 (26) $7,294.
17 Increase emphasis on electronic serials means a reduction in print serials that require binding.
20 Now includes Fringe Benefits.
37-38, 40-43 As at November 2010.
39 As at October 2010.
RICE
Library branches included: Fondren, Business Information Center.
1 Includes 24,273 Texshare e-books, 54,617 government document e-books and 9,775 commercial e-books.
1.b Includes 7,100 government document e-books and 1,552 commercial e-books.
5 Increase due to some increases in paid titles and large increases in the number of free serials (described below).
5.b Increase due to strengthened commitment to representing free serials in catalog.
10 Manuscripts and archives reported in cubic feet.
12 Increase due to heightened demand for images to illustrate university centennial.
16.c Decrease due to lower microform acquisitions levels.
16.d Includes memberships ($168,064), ILL ($32,341), in-house binding supplies ($12,329) and bibliographic utilities ($209,860).
17 Decrease due to declining print subscriptions.
18 One FTE professional and 1 FTE student grant-funded.
18.c Special projects and staff losses in some areas have increased dependence on student assistants.
23 Increase due to uneven impact of budget cuts.
24.a Some of increase due to previous overage and record enhancements.

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PITTSBURGH, cont.
5, 5.a, 5.a.i Large number of electronic serials purchased.
5.a.ii Weeded print journals.
5.b, 5.b.ii Number of freely accessible journals higher in 2010-2011 than in 2009-2010.
5.b.iv Several gov doc print journals weeded out in 2010-2011.
9 Higher number of electronic computer files purchased.
13 Small collection received.
16.a, 16.c-16.d,
20, 27.c
Budget cuts.
22 Budget cuts and not as many purchased.
26 Requests decreased.
35-36 Not as many requests.
PRINCETON
1.b.ii Due to a number of ongoing projects (reclassification and transfer to storage facility) more items identified for withdrawal.
5.b.ii Due to a huge increase in the enabling of free and open access electronic packages, titles available through SFX and Summon.
8 Continuing trend of previous years. Most government documents are now in Voyager.
17 Commercial binding policy changed 18 months ago, the library sends far less material to be bound.
18.b Library security guards transferred to University Public Safety.
24.a Joined Hathi Trust ($67,250).
40 2009-2010 enrollment reported in error: should have been 7,523, which results in a 2.76% increase in 2010-2011.
41, 43 Editor's Note: Figure changed from NA to 0 so that Princeton's Data would be included in the Analysis of Selected Variable chart
in the 2010-2011 ARL Statistics Publication.
42 2009-2010 graduate enrollment reported in error -should have been 2,479, which results in a 4.15% increase in 2010-2011.
PURDUE
Library branches included: Includes the library system on the West Lafayette campus, consisting of 11 subject-oriented libraries,
an undergraduate library, and a special collections research center.
1 Percentage increase due to more accurate system-generated count of volumes. Past years answers to Q1 did not include
cataloged and classified e-resources. Volumes held June 30, 2011, includes cataloged government documents. Includes e-books:
Cognet (541), Credo Reference (605), EEBO (125,000), ECCO (150,000), EngNet Base (1,678), Gale Virtual Reference (609), ACLS
Humanities (3,144), Knovel (2,753), Springer (28,699), Safari (1,227), Stat Ref (12), Alexander Street Press (2,578), ACS (1,292), Begell
House (12), Brill (1,995), Cambridge (149), CABI (584), ChemLibNetBase (855), EBSCO (3,297), eHRAF (255), Elsevier (3,008), Evans
(37,370), IEEE (558), IGI Global (1,183), Lyell Geological (359), Oxford Ref (228), RSC (1,116), Sabin (41,425), Sage (11), SIAM (377),
SourceOECD (5,000), Synthesis Digital (407), Wiley (7,704), World Scientific (408), and others.
1.a Volumes held June 30,2010 revised from 2,566,521 to 3,266,650 to include a more accurate system-generated count of volumes plus
110,171 e-book packages added during the 2009-2010 year.
1.b.ii Variance due to ongoing withdrawal projects.
3 Decrease reflects drop in monograph allocations due to overall materials budget review.
5.b Increase reflects cataloguing of additional titles.
16.a Reflects increase in expenditures for additional e-book resources.
16.d Includes additional fees not included in 2009-2010 for MARCIVE and CONTENTdm.
17 Binding expenditures continue to decline as fewer titles are purchased in print.
18-18.c Includes fringe benefits.
18.c Decrease largely due to reduction in weekend hours of several smaller libraries.

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RICE, cont.
25 Decrease due to uneven impact of budget cuts.
26, 35-36 Increase due to increased service demands in light of budget cuts.
30 Increase due to increased emphasis on outreach.
ROCHESTER
Library branches included: Sibley Music Library, Eastman School of Music.
Data from the Health Sciences Library are also included in the figures reported.
1.a Volumes held June 30, 2010 revised to 3,899,435. Includes 72,089 e-books added to collection.
4 2,850 volumes are based on a physical count.
5.b.ii, 6 Includes 70 government documents.
30.a, 31.a, 32.a Parts of total number derived from sampling.
RUTGERS
Library branches included: Summary includes Newark Law library and Camden Law Library, services to a non-Rutgers medical
school, and campuses in Camden, Newark and New Brunswick.
11-14 Unable to disaggregate Audiovisual Materials. Total AV =155,745.
SASKATCHEWAN
All figures are as of 04/30/2011.
Library branches included: Includes Education, Engineering, Murray, Natural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine libraries.
Library branches NOT included: Theological college libraries on campus that are not part of the library system.
Data from the Law and Health Sciences Library are also included in the figures reported.
3 In 2009-2010, there was a decrease in the acquisitions budget for monographs resulting in 11,963 volumes purchased. In 2010-2011,
funds were moved back from serials to monographs, hence the increase in monographic volumes purchased.
16-26 Expenditures as reported in Canadian dollars: (16a) $1,849,727 (16b) $8,678,274 (16c) $0 (16d) $130,655 (16) $10,658,656 (17) $62,457
(18a) $4,685,220 (18b) $3,617,268 (18c) $223,871 (18) $8,526,359 (20) $1,243,650 (21) $20,491,122 (22) $867,850 (23) $6,415,707 (24a)
$87,009 (24b) $0 (25) $370,431 (26) $38,541.
18.a Includes computer programmers and other specialists in the professional staff amount.
20 Includes funding from grants and special funds.
22 Our fiscal year runs from May 1 2010-April 30 2011 however due to the delay in figures needed, the fiscal year represented was
from May 17 2010-June 9 2011, therefore possibly reflecting 2 years of payments in the totals.
23 A percentage is from resources for the Saskatchewan Health Information Resources Partnership (SHIRP). Unable to determine
the exact portion specific to the U of S. Again, 2 years of payments possibly reflected in the totals as the information was extracted
for May 17 2010-June 9 2011.
39 Includes professors, associate professors, assistant professors, lecturers and instructors.
41 New strategy used to extract figures.
42 Includes post-graduate clinical students.
SOUTH CAROLINA
Library branches included: Business Library, Math Library, Music Library, Hollings Special Collections Library, Moving Image
Research Collections, South Caroliniana Library.
Data from the Law and Health Sciences Library are also included in the figures reported.
1.a Volumes held June 30, 2010 revised to 3,968,009.
2 We changed our counting mechanism from physical to bibliographic and this adjusted our title count.
3 Decrease due to cancellation of approval books program.
33 The Main Library did not report initial circulations in 2009-2010 but did report initial circulations in 2010-2011.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Library branches included: Main campus libraries.

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