ARL Statistics 2010-2011

Kyrillidou, Martha; Morris, Shaneka; Roebuck, Gary

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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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Footnotes · 153
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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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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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, cont.
Data from the Law and Health Sciences Libraries are also included in the figures reported.
1.b, 1.b.i Increase due to strategic initiative work, more efficient collection processing techniques, and loading of e-book MARC records.
1.b.ii The figure represents a return to more typical weeding levels. (The decline highlights large weeding project conducted in 2009-
2010.)
2 Increase reflects the loading of MARC records of large e-book collections made possible by additional staff.
5.b, 9 Figure provided by ILS.
5.b.ii Increase reflects concerted effort to improve access to open source journals and new system for tracking data (SerialsSolution).
5.b.iii New procedures in development to establish a more reliable process to track these items in the future.
8 2009-2010 figure carried over. New procedures in development to establish a more reliable process to track these items in the
future.
16.a The figure represents a return to typical budget levels. (The decline highlights supplemental funds provided in previous fiscal
years and a lack of inflationary increase.)
17 Increase indicates special binding projects.
20 Fringe benefits should have been included in 2009-2010 and prior years in this category but were inadvertently distributed among
other non-compensation expenses.
22 The figure represents a return to typical budget levels. (The decline highlights supplemental funds provided in 2009-2010.)
25 Increase represents one-time large computer upgrade project.
27.a-27.b Changes in figures primarily to reclassification from staff to professional staff per definitions for ARL salary survey.
27.c 2009-2010 figure carried over.
33-34 Decline in circulation due in part to new discovery tool and increased use of electronic resources.
35 Expanded lending partnership in RAPID and GWLA.
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS
Data from the Law and Health Sciences Library are also included in the figures reported.
1.a Volumes held June 30, 2010 revised to 3,430,714.
5, 5.a More titles included in aggregator databases, specifically in EBSCOhost and Lexis Nexis databases.
5, 5.b More free titles tracked in our linkresolver.
SUNY-ALBANY
1 Includes 96,418 e-books of which 71,658 are U.S. government documents.
1.a Volumes held June 30, 2010 revised to 2,319,499.
3 Includes 4,241 e-books.
17 Excludes theses and dissertations.
26 Includes bibliographic utility fees.
32 READ software is used to track reference transactions. The READ Scale is a six-point scale used for recording qualitative
statistics related to user queries. The READ Scale count is close to a 1:1 ratio of patron to question transactions. The scale places an
emphasis on the skills, knowledge, techniques, and tools used by the librarian during a specific reference transaction.
SUNY-BUFFALO
Data from the Law and Health Sciences Library are also included in the figures reported.
1.b.i A large number of e-books were cataloged 2009-2010.
1.b.ii Large duplicates withdrawal project performed 2009-2010.
3 Decrease due to a combination of a reduced acquisitions budget and an increasing prioritization of serials over monographs.
5.a.i, 5.a.ii Increasing shift from print to electronic journal titles.
5.b.ii Increasing activations of freely available journal sets.
16.a-c, 22 Decrease due to a combination of a reduced acquisitions budget and an increasing prioritization of serials over monographs.
17 Decrease due to a policy change where monograph titles purchased in softcover are no longer hardbound.

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