ARL Statistics 2010-2011

Kyrillidou, Martha; Morris, Shaneka; Roebuck, Gary

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SUNY-BUFFALO, cont.
27.a, 27.b Decrease in staffing levels due to large number of retirements to take advantage of State of New York and University at Buffalo
early retirement incentive programs.
30 Decrease in staff necessitated reduction in number of presentations.
SUNY-STONY BROOK
Library branches included: Music, Math/Astronomy/Physics, Chemistry, Marine, Sciences.
Data from the Health Sciences Library are also included in the figures reported.
1.b Increase over 2009-2010 in number of volumes recorded is due to government documents added to catalog as part of the SuDoc/
Marcive project our participation in this project began in 2010-2011.
5.a.ii Number reported for 2009-2010 for this question was too high. Correct number is 2,225. Decreased number for this survey due to
journal cancellation and switching from print to online.
5.b.iv Data retrieved from Documents Data Miner: DDM-2.
16 Received special additional allocation to our acquisitions budget, approximately $1,000,000 for 2010-2011 2011-2012 and promised
for 2012-2013.
16.a, 22 Significant increase over 2009-2010 due to increased allocation used to purchase large archival collections and backfiles.
16.d Bibliographic utilities and related resources: $173,181 (OCLC, 360Search, MARC records purchased, Libguides, GOBI,
Classification Web, Catalogers Desktop, QuestionPoint, ContentDM) Memberships: $90,659 (Lyrasis, CNI, CRL, ARL, LILRC,
CLIR, OCLC members) Offsite storage: $39,005 Misc.: $13,000.
17 Binding fewer titles due to switch to online only subscriptions. Also, due to change in procedures, there was a backlog of
materials to be bound.
18 We had many retirements and resignations over the year and have not been able to recruit due to personnel funding restrictions.
21 Most of increase ($1,000,000) due to special allocation to library acquisitions budget.
27.a, 27.b Professional staff numbers decreased significantly due to early retirement incentives and normal attrition. There were very strict
requirements for hiring replacements, in part due to the New York State budget and its effect on Stony Brook University, and in
part as a result of a Bain Consulting process the university, including the library, went through.
SYRACUSE
Data from the Law Library are also included in the figures reported.
1.a Volumes held June 30, 2010 revised to 3,617,745. Added 336,507 as bulkload records representing two e-book packages (ECCO and
EEBO).
1.b.ii Large weeding project of government documents now available electronically.
8 Due to change in cataloging and counting procedure, government documents are no longer separated out from volume count.
16.b Monograph expenditure figure includes purchase of e-book packages. These numbers are reported in Titles but not in Volumes
Added.
TEMPLE
Library branches included: Harrisburg Campus Library, Ambler Library, Science &Engineering Library, Blockson Afro-
American collection.
Library branches NOT included: Rome (Italy), Tokyo (Japan), Osaka (Japan).
Data from the Law and Health Sciences Library are also included in the figures reported.
18.c Due to a hiring freeze for full time staff, student hiring expanded.
22 Due to hiring freeze on full-time staff, considerable salary savings were available and re-allocated to one-time purchases.
TENNESSEE
Library branches included: UT Libraries-Knoxville and UT Space Institute Library-Tullahoma.
Data from the Law and Health Sciences Library are also included in the figures reported.
1.a Volumes held June 30, 2010 revised to 3,354,862.
1.b There was a major weeding project conducted in 2009-2010, at least in part connected to serials and periodicals for which we now
have on-line access. During 2010-2011, we withdrew over 44,000 paper items belonging to over 4,000 titles.

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Footnotes · 155
SUNY-BUFFALO, cont.
27.a, 27.b Decrease in staffing levels due to large number of retirements to take advantage of State of New York and University at Buffalo
early retirement incentive programs.
30 Decrease in staff necessitated reduction in number of presentations.
SUNY-STONY BROOK
Library branches included: Music, Math/Astronomy/Physics, Chemistry, Marine, Sciences.
Data from the Health Sciences Library are also included in the figures reported.
1.b Increase over 2009-2010 in number of volumes recorded is due to government documents added to catalog as part of the SuDoc/
Marcive project our participation in this project began in 2010-2011.
5.a.ii Number reported for 2009-2010 for this question was too high. Correct number is 2,225. Decreased number for this survey due to
journal cancellation and switching from print to online.
5.b.iv Data retrieved from Documents Data Miner: DDM-2.
16 Received special additional allocation to our acquisitions budget, approximately $1,000,000 for 2010-2011 2011-2012 and promised
for 2012-2013.
16.a, 22 Significant increase over 2009-2010 due to increased allocation used to purchase large archival collections and backfiles.
16.d Bibliographic utilities and related resources: $173,181 (OCLC, 360Search, MARC records purchased, Libguides, GOBI,
Classification Web, Catalogers Desktop, QuestionPoint, ContentDM) Memberships: $90,659 (Lyrasis, CNI, CRL, ARL, LILRC,
CLIR, OCLC members) Offsite storage: $39,005 Misc.: $13,000.
17 Binding fewer titles due to switch to online only subscriptions. Also, due to change in procedures, there was a backlog of
materials to be bound.
18 We had many retirements and resignations over the year and have not been able to recruit due to personnel funding restrictions.
21 Most of increase ($1,000,000) due to special allocation to library acquisitions budget.
27.a, 27.b Professional staff numbers decreased significantly due to early retirement incentives and normal attrition. There were very strict
requirements for hiring replacements, in part due to the New York State budget and its effect on Stony Brook University, and in
part as a result of a Bain Consulting process the university, including the library, went through.
SYRACUSE
Data from the Law Library are also included in the figures reported.
1.a Volumes held June 30, 2010 revised to 3,617,745. Added 336,507 as bulkload records representing two e-book packages (ECCO and
EEBO).
1.b.ii Large weeding project of government documents now available electronically.
8 Due to change in cataloging and counting procedure, government documents are no longer separated out from volume count.
16.b Monograph expenditure figure includes purchase of e-book packages. These numbers are reported in Titles but not in Volumes
Added.
TEMPLE
Library branches included: Harrisburg Campus Library, Ambler Library, Science &Engineering Library, Blockson Afro-
American collection.
Library branches NOT included: Rome (Italy), Tokyo (Japan), Osaka (Japan).
Data from the Law and Health Sciences Library are also included in the figures reported.
18.c Due to a hiring freeze for full time staff, student hiring expanded.
22 Due to hiring freeze on full-time staff, considerable salary savings were available and re-allocated to one-time purchases.
TENNESSEE
Library branches included: UT Libraries-Knoxville and UT Space Institute Library-Tullahoma.
Data from the Law and Health Sciences Library are also included in the figures reported.
1.a Volumes held June 30, 2010 revised to 3,354,862.
1.b There was a major weeding project conducted in 2009-2010, at least in part connected to serials and periodicals for which we now
have on-line access. During 2010-2011, we withdrew over 44,000 paper items belonging to over 4,000 titles.

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TENNESSEE, cont.
3 The main difference lies in the number of electronic books we purchased in 2010-2011 versus 2009-2010. In 2009-2010, we
purchased 3,231 e-books while in 2010-2011, we purchased 15,416 e-books.
5.a.ii Switched many subscriptions from print to electronic.
5.b.i Databases used by consortial partners (TEL) are growing in number of titles.
5.b.ii Freely accessible databases are growing in number of titles.
5.b.iii Miscounted print titles in 2009-2010.
13 Increase in audio, film and video items due to an increase in streaming media.
16 Stimulus funds and salary savings (due to unfilled, but open positions) carried over from 2009-2010 account for the increase. Also,
a change in licensing procedures resulted in some payments for items purchased in 2009-2010 being made in 2010-2011.
17 A large portion of binding was discontinued in 2009-2010 due to the switch to electronic resources, but some of this was
reinstated in 2010-2011, due to electronic access issues.
21 Increase due to expenditures of one-time stimulus funds and carry-over funds from 2009-2010.
24.b Expansion of TEL and increased use account for the difference here.
27.c Budget for student assistants faced more cuts.
32 Difference due to changes in the way reference questions are counted, as well as fewer questions.
38 Only current programs are included. In the past, programs that were being phased out were included.
TEXAS
All figures are as of 08/31/2011.
Library branches included: University of Texas at Austin Libraries, the Briscoe Center for American History, the Tarlton Law
Library, and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center.
1.a Volumes held revised to 10,027,733. Adjusted to add e-books, including EBL, MyILibrary, eBrary, Gale Virtual Reference, ARTFL,
CIAO, LION, Evans Early American Imprints, Making of Modern Law, Sabin Americana, Making of America, Oxford Reference
Books online, Gerritsen, History eBook (now Humanities), OECD, World Bank eLibrary, Annual Reviews, Si Ku Quan Shu, Old
English Corpus, Heritage Quest, Stat Reference, Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, and CHANT -Chinese Ancient Texts.
5 We de-duped our SFX list by ISSN, resulting in a list of electronic serials by unique ISSNs. The list of electronic serials by unique
ISSN was compared to the list of active print/other serial titles derived from the Innovative Interfaces Serials Control module.
ISSNs which appeared in both lists were dropped from the print/other list, resulting in a list of print/other titles with unique
ISSNs or with no ISSNs at all. Both lists (electronic and print/other) were then sorted into purchased/non-purchased.
16 Includes total expenditures for library materials of $14,672,759 by the University Libraries, $1,450,323 by the Tarlton Law Library,
and $1,318,190 by the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center.
18.c Includes federal work-study funds.
31 Includes users of online tutorials.
37 Does not include EdD degrees.
TEXAS A&M
All figures are as of 08/31/2011.
Library branches included: Sterling C. Evans Library, Library Annex, Cushing Memorial Library, Technical Reference Center
(Architecture Library), Medical Sciences Library, West Campus Library, Policy Sciences and Economics Library, Jack K. Williams
Library (Galveston), Texas A&M University Library at Qatar.
1.a Volumes held revised to 4,517,199. In 2010-2011 we changed the method of counting volumes. Total is now based entirely on data
pulled from our Voyager database. Previous method was a combination of adding historical data and current data (pulled from
a combination of Voyager data and manual counts). New method will be more consistent in being able to track totals as well as
reduce (although not entirely eliminate) human data entry errors.
1.b.ii Significant amount of withdrawals due to eliminating print copies of resources currently help in electronic format.
2 Method used to identify unique titles was changed in 2010-2011 to a more accurate algorithm.
7 Total is less than the 2009-2010 total because of withdrawal of microform units that are currently available in electronic format.

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TENNESSEE, cont.
3 The main difference lies in the number of electronic books we purchased in 2010-2011 versus 2009-2010. In 2009-2010, we
purchased 3,231 e-books while in 2010-2011, we purchased 15,416 e-books.
5.a.ii Switched many subscriptions from print to electronic.
5.b.i Databases used by consortial partners (TEL) are growing in number of titles.
5.b.ii Freely accessible databases are growing in number of titles.
5.b.iii Miscounted print titles in 2009-2010.
13 Increase in audio, film and video items due to an increase in streaming media.
16 Stimulus funds and salary savings (due to unfilled, but open positions) carried over from 2009-2010 account for the increase. Also,
a change in licensing procedures resulted in some payments for items purchased in 2009-2010 being made in 2010-2011.
17 A large portion of binding was discontinued in 2009-2010 due to the switch to electronic resources, but some of this was
reinstated in 2010-2011, due to electronic access issues.
21 Increase due to expenditures of one-time stimulus funds and carry-over funds from 2009-2010.
24.b Expansion of TEL and increased use account for the difference here.
27.c Budget for student assistants faced more cuts.
32 Difference due to changes in the way reference questions are counted, as well as fewer questions.
38 Only current programs are included. In the past, programs that were being phased out were included.
TEXAS
All figures are as of 08/31/2011.
Library branches included: University of Texas at Austin Libraries, the Briscoe Center for American History, the Tarlton Law
Library, and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center.
1.a Volumes held revised to 10,027,733. Adjusted to add e-books, including EBL, MyILibrary, eBrary, Gale Virtual Reference, ARTFL,
CIAO, LION, Evans Early American Imprints, Making of Modern Law, Sabin Americana, Making of America, Oxford Reference
Books online, Gerritsen, History eBook (now Humanities), OECD, World Bank eLibrary, Annual Reviews, Si Ku Quan Shu, Old
English Corpus, Heritage Quest, Stat Reference, Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, and CHANT -Chinese Ancient Texts.
5 We de-duped our SFX list by ISSN, resulting in a list of electronic serials by unique ISSNs. The list of electronic serials by unique
ISSN was compared to the list of active print/other serial titles derived from the Innovative Interfaces Serials Control module.
ISSNs which appeared in both lists were dropped from the print/other list, resulting in a list of print/other titles with unique
ISSNs or with no ISSNs at all. Both lists (electronic and print/other) were then sorted into purchased/non-purchased.
16 Includes total expenditures for library materials of $14,672,759 by the University Libraries, $1,450,323 by the Tarlton Law Library,
and $1,318,190 by the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center.
18.c Includes federal work-study funds.
31 Includes users of online tutorials.
37 Does not include EdD degrees.
TEXAS A&M
All figures are as of 08/31/2011.
Library branches included: Sterling C. Evans Library, Library Annex, Cushing Memorial Library, Technical Reference Center
(Architecture Library), Medical Sciences Library, West Campus Library, Policy Sciences and Economics Library, Jack K. Williams
Library (Galveston), Texas A&M University Library at Qatar.
1.a Volumes held revised to 4,517,199. In 2010-2011 we changed the method of counting volumes. Total is now based entirely on data
pulled from our Voyager database. Previous method was a combination of adding historical data and current data (pulled from
a combination of Voyager data and manual counts). New method will be more consistent in being able to track totals as well as
reduce (although not entirely eliminate) human data entry errors.
1.b.ii Significant amount of withdrawals due to eliminating print copies of resources currently help in electronic format.
2 Method used to identify unique titles was changed in 2010-2011 to a more accurate algorithm.
7 Total is less than the 2009-2010 total because of withdrawal of microform units that are currently available in electronic format.

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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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154 · ARL Statistics 2010–2011
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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