100 · ARL Statistics 2011–2012
Question
Number
Footnote
MCGILL, cont.
7 More expenses were placed on collections this year.
8.a–8.c,
13–13.c
Professional salaries &professional staff now include also other professional staff (e.g. budget
officers, web developers, etc.).
9 Less of the expenses were allocated to “other” costs this year.
10 Includes vacation, health and dental, and pension benefits.
12 Consortial and network expenditures are included in 7b.
14–15 Work stoppage of support staff Sept-Dec 2011.
17 Partially explained by work stoppage of support staff Sept-Dec 2011, which led to change in renewal
policy.
23 Includes PhDs, doctorates, and medical, dentistry, and law degrees.
26–28 New measure. Includes medical residents and fellows, postdoctoral students, and other graduate
students.
MCMASTER
All figures are as of 04/30/2012.
Library branches included: Mills Memorial Library, H.G. Thode Library of Science &Engineering,
and Innis (Business Library).
Data from the Health Sciences Library are included in the figures reported.
6–9, 10, 12 Expenditures as reported in Canadian dollars — Collections Expenditures: (7a) $1,083,995 (7b)
$7,137,706 (7c) $1,016,961 (7) $9,238,662 Salary Expenditures: (8a) $3,925,265 (8b) $3,528,056 (8c)
$268,921 (8) $7,722,242 (10) $2,473,318 Overall Expenditures: (7) $9,238,662 (8) $7,722,242 (9)
$1,462,186 (6) $18,423,090 (12) $733. NOTE: Total Salaries and Wages (Q8) EXCLUDES Fringe Benefits
Expenditures (Q10).
9 Includes one-time expenditures for equipment for the new Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship.
10 Includes Statutory CPP, EI, EHT, and WSIB pension dental major medical life insurance surcharge
post-retirement surcharge WSIB NEER surcharge and sick leave pool for permanent staff.
11 Percentages are based on pay group, e.g., CAW, TMG, faculty, etc., as well as salary range and
coverage (single, family). This percentage is based on three librarians’ benefit costs, averaged.
14–15 McMaster University Library has been piloting the use of online modules for large, first-year courses
in order to reduce the number of repetitive, face-to-face sessions. This activity is not captured in these
statistics.
16 McMaster University Library was transitioning to a new method of capturing reference statistics and
is unable to provide reliable statistics for 2011–2012.
18 From 12 resources: ACS, Cambridge, Elsevier, JSTOR, Nature, Oxford, Project MUSE, SAGE, Journals
@Scholars Portal, Springer, Taylor &Francis, and Wiley.
20 We do not offer federated searching.
MANITOBA
All figures are as of 03/31/2012.
Question
Number
Footnote
MCGILL, cont.
7 More expenses were placed on collections this year.
8.a–8.c,
13–13.c
Professional salaries &professional staff now include also other professional staff (e.g. budget
officers, web developers, etc.).
9 Less of the expenses were allocated to “other” costs this year.
10 Includes vacation, health and dental, and pension benefits.
12 Consortial and network expenditures are included in 7b.
14–15 Work stoppage of support staff Sept-Dec 2011.
17 Partially explained by work stoppage of support staff Sept-Dec 2011, which led to change in renewal
policy.
23 Includes PhDs, doctorates, and medical, dentistry, and law degrees.
26–28 New measure. Includes medical residents and fellows, postdoctoral students, and other graduate
students.
MCMASTER
All figures are as of 04/30/2012.
Library branches included: Mills Memorial Library, H.G. Thode Library of Science &Engineering,
and Innis (Business Library).
Data from the Health Sciences Library are included in the figures reported.
6–9, 10, 12 Expenditures as reported in Canadian dollars — Collections Expenditures: (7a) $1,083,995 (7b)
$7,137,706 (7c) $1,016,961 (7) $9,238,662 Salary Expenditures: (8a) $3,925,265 (8b) $3,528,056 (8c)
$268,921 (8) $7,722,242 (10) $2,473,318 Overall Expenditures: (7) $9,238,662 (8) $7,722,242 (9)
$1,462,186 (6) $18,423,090 (12) $733. NOTE: Total Salaries and Wages (Q8) EXCLUDES Fringe Benefits
Expenditures (Q10).
9 Includes one-time expenditures for equipment for the new Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship.
10 Includes Statutory CPP, EI, EHT, and WSIB pension dental major medical life insurance surcharge
post-retirement surcharge WSIB NEER surcharge and sick leave pool for permanent staff.
11 Percentages are based on pay group, e.g., CAW, TMG, faculty, etc., as well as salary range and
coverage (single, family). This percentage is based on three librarians’ benefit costs, averaged.
14–15 McMaster University Library has been piloting the use of online modules for large, first-year courses
in order to reduce the number of repetitive, face-to-face sessions. This activity is not captured in these
statistics.
16 McMaster University Library was transitioning to a new method of capturing reference statistics and
is unable to provide reliable statistics for 2011–2012.
18 From 12 resources: ACS, Cambridge, Elsevier, JSTOR, Nature, Oxford, Project MUSE, SAGE, Journals
@Scholars Portal, Springer, Taylor &Francis, and Wiley.
20 We do not offer federated searching.
MANITOBA
All figures are as of 03/31/2012.
