ARL Statistics 2010-2011

Kyrillidou, Martha; Morris, Shaneka; Roebuck, Gary

158 · ARL Statistics 2010–2011
UTAH
Data from the Law and Health Sciences Library are also included in the figures reported.
1.a Volumes held June 30, 2010 revised to 3,453,680.
1.b Total includes 130,624 e-books added as part of shift to e-preferred in acquisitions.
2 Figure reflects Law and Health Sciences data only. Figure includes 146,207 titles from the Law Library and 64,193 titles from the
Health Sciences Library.
5.b.ii Projects to add more content to online discovery layer.
16 Large e-book purchase effort.
16.c Does not include Main library.
16.d Decrease in document delivery expenditures.
21 Expenditures include salary and expenditure figures for University Press, now part of the Marriott Library.
24.a Increased use of content and services from regional and national consortia and utilities.
VANDERBILT
Library branches included: Central Library, Divinity Library, Management Library, Music Library, Peabody Library, Science and
Engineering Library, Special Collections.
Data from the Law and Health Sciences Library are also included in the figures reported. PhD degrees, faculty, and enrollment
numbers for Vanderbilt University are reported with statistics for Main Library.
3 2009-2010 number should be corrected to 23,381 due to error in calculations.
5, 5.a, 5.a.i More free titles available more titles included in packages.
5.a.ii Library is moving from print to electronic journals.
5.b, 5.b.i Consortial packages include more titles.
5.b, 5.b.ii More free and open access titles available via SFX.
5.b, 5.b.iv More electronic-versions of government documents available.
16, 16.a Emphasis on spending endowed funds in 2010-2011.
16, 16.b Increase to cover price increases, additions to packages.
17 Special project to bind music scores required added funding.
20 Completion of renovation project from 2009-2010 lowered 2010-2011 expenses.
22 Increased emphasis on e-books and archival access, expending restricted funds.
24.a Increase in outsourced cataloging.
25 Decrease in special funding for new hardware.
30-31 Library has increased emphasis on outreach.
32 Decrease in users seeking reference assistance.
36 Improved ILL supply procedures.
37 No. of PhD's has shown an increasing trend for past 10 years.
VIRGINIA
Library branches included: Alderman (Main), Astronomy, Biology/Psychology, Chemistry, Clemons Undergraduate, Education,
Fiske Kimball Fine Arts, Math, Music, Physics, Brown Science &Engineering, Small Special Collections [University Library].
Data from the Darden Graduate Business, Law, and Health Sciences Library are also included in the figures reported. [University
Library]
2 Number reported is for all UVa libraries. [University Library]
3 Decrease in due to fewer e-book purchases by the Law Library in 2010-2011. [University Library]
2, 37-43 Reported in Main for all UVa libraries. [Darden Graduate Business Library]
VIRGINIA TECH
Library branches included: Art and Architecture, Vet Med, Northern Virginia.
1.b, 1.b.i We bought a rather large e-book package in 2009-2010.

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158 · ARL Statistics 2010–2011
UTAH
Data from the Law and Health Sciences Library are also included in the figures reported.
1.a Volumes held June 30, 2010 revised to 3,453,680.
1.b Total includes 130,624 e-books added as part of shift to e-preferred in acquisitions.
2 Figure reflects Law and Health Sciences data only. Figure includes 146,207 titles from the Law Library and 64,193 titles from the
Health Sciences Library.
5.b.ii Projects to add more content to online discovery layer.
16 Large e-book purchase effort.
16.c Does not include Main library.
16.d Decrease in document delivery expenditures.
21 Expenditures include salary and expenditure figures for University Press, now part of the Marriott Library.
24.a Increased use of content and services from regional and national consortia and utilities.
VANDERBILT
Library branches included: Central Library, Divinity Library, Management Library, Music Library, Peabody Library, Science and
Engineering Library, Special Collections.
Data from the Law and Health Sciences Library are also included in the figures reported. PhD degrees, faculty, and enrollment
numbers for Vanderbilt University are reported with statistics for Main Library.
3 2009-2010 number should be corrected to 23,381 due to error in calculations.
5, 5.a, 5.a.i More free titles available more titles included in packages.
5.a.ii Library is moving from print to electronic journals.
5.b, 5.b.i Consortial packages include more titles.
5.b, 5.b.ii More free and open access titles available via SFX.
5.b, 5.b.iv More electronic-versions of government documents available.
16, 16.a Emphasis on spending endowed funds in 2010-2011.
16, 16.b Increase to cover price increases, additions to packages.
17 Special project to bind music scores required added funding.
20 Completion of renovation project from 2009-2010 lowered 2010-2011 expenses.
22 Increased emphasis on e-books and archival access, expending restricted funds.
24.a Increase in outsourced cataloging.
25 Decrease in special funding for new hardware.
30-31 Library has increased emphasis on outreach.
32 Decrease in users seeking reference assistance.
36 Improved ILL supply procedures.
37 No. of PhD's has shown an increasing trend for past 10 years.
VIRGINIA
Library branches included: Alderman (Main), Astronomy, Biology/Psychology, Chemistry, Clemons Undergraduate, Education,
Fiske Kimball Fine Arts, Math, Music, Physics, Brown Science &Engineering, Small Special Collections [University Library].
Data from the Darden Graduate Business, Law, and Health Sciences Library are also included in the figures reported. [University
Library]
2 Number reported is for all UVa libraries. [University Library]
3 Decrease in due to fewer e-book purchases by the Law Library in 2010-2011. [University Library]
2, 37-43 Reported in Main for all UVa libraries. [Darden Graduate Business Library]
VIRGINIA TECH
Library branches included: Art and Architecture, Vet Med, Northern Virginia.
1.b, 1.b.i We bought a rather large e-book package in 2009-2010.

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TEXAS A&M, cont.
16 Decrease reflects impact of university-wide mandated budget reductions.
16.a Reduction of approval program as part of university-wide mandate budget reductions
16.c-16.d Highly volatile expense category. Varies from year to year.
17 Ongoing decline in this category as Libraries continue to transition from print to electronic format of information resources.
18-18.c, 20, 27a.-
27.c
Decrease from 2009-2010 part of university-wide mandated budget reductions.
28 Effort underway to combine individual library service points into single service points.
30-31 Increase reflects efforts to meet with Students during key points in their degree course curricula.
32 In 2010-2011 Libraries changed software used to track reference transactions. Note that the software will again be changed in
2012.
38 Increase is due to the inclusion of PhDs awarded through the Texas A&M Health Science Center, which the University Libraries
also serves, and due to the addition of additional PhD programs at the Texas A&M University.
39 During the 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 fiscal years Texas A&M underwent budget cuts. One aspect of those cuts was offering of early
retirement options for Texas A&M faculty. The figure reported for 2010-2011 reflects the impact of this budget savings program.
TEXAS TECH
All figures are as of 08/31/2011.
Library branches included: Architecture Library, Geosciences, Museum, Vietnam Archive, Southwest Collection/Special
Collections Library, Education.
Data from the Law and Health Sciences Libraries are also included in the figures reported.
1.a Volumes held revised to 2,787,007.
2 Figure reflects Law and Health Sciences data only. Figure includes 157,825 titles from the Law Library and 125,758 titles from the
Health Sciences Library. Increase is due to an increase in titles on the Health Science survey.
TORONTO
All figures are as of 04/30/2011.
Library branches included: All libraries at the University of Toronto are included. For circulation statistics and collections
(volumes held) data, only, 12 teaching hospital libraries are included with the U of T libraries.
Data from the Law and Health Sciences Library are also included in the figures reported.
1.a Volumes held revised to 12,423,261, adjusted for 728,099 e-books held and not reported.
3 Includes 60,200 e-books.
10 Revised to include Media Archives collections not previously reported.
16-26 Expenditures as reported in Canadian dollars: (16a) $8,282,038 (16b) $16,112,666 (16c) $2,578,921 (16d) $0 (16) $26,973,625 (17)
$299,957 (18a) $16,810,130 (18b) $17,437,099 (18c) $4,295,108 (18) $38,542,337 (20) $7,297,706 (21) $73,113,625 (22) $2,527,695 (23)
$11,646,705 (24a) $30,891 (24b) $0 (25) $4,516,126 (26) $233,747.
16.b Increase due to changes in our reporting of electronic serials expenditures.
16.c Decrease due to changes in our reporting of electronic serials expenditures.
29 Library hours of service changed from 24x7 to 24x5.
TULANE
Library branches included: In addition to the main Howard-Tilton Memorial Library these figures include the Turchin Business
Library, Nadine Vorhoff at the Newcomb College Institute, the Tulane Architecture Library, and the Tulane Math 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 4,158,335.
1.b.i The decrease is due to fewer e-book packages and digital collections with individual MARC records for book titles within them
being purchased in 2010-2011.
2 Figure reflects Law data only.

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VIRGINIA TECH, cont.
1.b.ii Figures are down because we are doing a mass collection review that affects the number of volumes withdrawn during the year.
5.a, 5.a.i. 5.a.ii Figures are different because of a large collection review.
5.b.iii We've added some open access content.
16.c-16.d Certain one-time large purchases were made in 2009-2010.
22 Increase due to the purchase of backfiles.
25 Upgraded public machines.
32 Contacting all service points for Reference interactions not just the reference desk.
35 ILL Statistics are down slightly because of a technical problem where requests were unintentionally being deflected for three
months.
WASHINGTON
Library branches included: Library branches included: UW Seattle ("Main", Health Sciences, Law), UW Bothell and UW Tacoma
libraries [Main Library].
1 Volumes held 2010-2011 includes 497,275 e-books. [Main Library]
1.a Volumes held June 30, 2010 revised to 7,498,884. Total volumes adjusted upward by 295,728 due to revised bibliographic count.
1.b.ii Increased number of volumes withdrawn due to reliance on collective consortial repository. [Main Library]
5 Serial title increase from 2009-2010 due primarily to bibliographic record recount. [Main Library]
5.a-5.b Catalog records added for serial titles not previously cataloged. [Main Library]
11 Decrease due to recount of aerial photographs. [Main Library]
13 Decrease due to recount. [Main Library]
14 Increase due to recount and higher acquisition rate. [Main Library]
16.a Increase in monograph expenditures due primarily to higher expenditures at UW Bothell and UW Tacoma. [Main Library]
18.c Student assistant budget was reduced by 20%. [Main Library]
20 Increase in other operating expenditures related to Health Sciences Library increases in this area. [Main Library]
26 Decrease in expenditures represent different accounting method. [Main Library]
27.c Decrease in number of student assistants due to 20% budget reduction at UW Seattle. [Main Library]
32 Law Library reference statistics included in 2010-2011 otherwise decrease would have been larger. [Main Library]
WASHINGTON STATE
Library branches included: Includes WSU-Vancouver, WSU-Tri-Cities, WSU Energy Library, and WSU Riverpoint Campus
Library.
3 Includes 26,891 e-books.
11 The figure is a true current figure extracted from our integrated library system records. In previous years, the figure was
computed additively from the preceding year's reported figure.
16.d Expenditures in this category were offset by a large outstanding credit, which in previous years had been used to prepay
materials purchases for the next fiscal year.
26 Expenditure for 2009-2010 was incorrectly reported as $21,479. The correct figure for 2009-2010 is $119,165.
32 The large difference from previous years may be due in part to a change in the method of data collection which was implemented
in 2010-2011.
WASHINGTON U.-ST. LOUIS
Data from the Law and Health Sciences Library are also included in the figures reported.
1 Social Work volume count omitted in error in 2009-2010.
1.a Volumes held June 30, 2010 revised to 4,493,187.
3, 16, 16.a There was a major decrease in American and British approval books because we changed vendors. The old vendor stopped
operations before the new vendor could begin. There were several months when we received no approval books and several more
months when we received only a few. To compensate for this, we had to purchase more books as firm orders.

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