Footnotes · 87
Question
Number
Footnote
CONNECTICUT
Library branches included: Branch libraries include Avery Point, Stamford, Torrington, Waterbury,
and West Hartford regional campus libraries. Branch libraries also include the Music and Dramatic
Arts Library, the Pharmacy Library, and the University Archives and Special Collections at the main
campus (Storrs).
Data from the Law and Health Sciences Libraries are included in the figures reported.
8 Fringe benefits were excluded for this year in question 8 and appear as a separate number in question
10. Previous years’ surveys included fringe benefits in salaries and wages reported.
10 Fringe benefits include pension, unemployment compensation, health services, group life insurance,
Social Security, and medical insurance.
16 Reference Transactions for last year’s survey were inaccurate. This year’s number is accurate.
20 The total number includes 7,380 searches through EBSCOhost and 283,937 searches through
Summon.
CORNELL
Library branches included: Includes all libraries on the Ithaca, New York City, and Geneva NY
campuses: Adelson (ornithology), Africana, Annex, Asia Collections, Engineering (virtual library),
Fine Arts, Hotel, Industrial &Labor Relations, Law, Management, Mann (agricultural &life sciences)/
Entomology, Mathematics, Music, Olin/Uris (humanities &social sciences), Physical Sciences (virtual
library), Rare &Manuscript Collections, and Veterinary Libraries in Ithaca Medical Center Archives
and Medical Library in New York City and New York Agricultural Experiment Station Library in
Geneva NY.
Library branches NOT included: Excludes the library at the Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar.
This is the first time counts for the Medical Library and the Medical Center Archives in New York
City are included in the CUL totals.
1 The count excludes microforms cataloged with print, as well as e-books created through CUL’s
collaboration with Google. The deduplication between Ithaca/Geneva and NYC is an estimate.
2 See the notes for Electronic Books.
4 Excludes e-books created through CUL’s collaboration with Google. Includes some duplication
between packages yet to be determined, and some streaming audio and visual counts that cannot be
separated at this time.
6 Includes $2,782,332 for grants tracked through the Office of Sponsored Programs. Includes $47,558
in in-year returns to a college. Materials expenditures exclude Qatar’s contribution to shared
e-resources. Includes significant materials expenditures on one-time funds.
7 The requested breakouts cannot be provided. See also previous note.
8.a Includes expenditures for academic and exempt staff.
8.b Includes expenditures for non-academic, non-exempt staff only.
10–11 Unavailable. Benefits for staff in the state-funded units are not paid through the libraries’ budgets
except for staff on sponsored projects on the private side of the university, rates differ between the
Ithaca and NYC campuses. $5,425,871 in benefit expenditures were reported by Ithaca’s privately
funded units the official designated percentage was 35%.
13 Excludes any short-term temporary staff and any positions that were temporarily vacant as of June
30, 2012. Includes 16.03 FTE for grant projects tracked through the Office of Sponsored Programs.
13.a Includes academic and exempt staff.
13.b Includes non-academic, non-exempt staff only.
Question
Number
Footnote
CONNECTICUT
Library branches included: Branch libraries include Avery Point, Stamford, Torrington, Waterbury,
and West Hartford regional campus libraries. Branch libraries also include the Music and Dramatic
Arts Library, the Pharmacy Library, and the University Archives and Special Collections at the main
campus (Storrs).
Data from the Law and Health Sciences Libraries are included in the figures reported.
8 Fringe benefits were excluded for this year in question 8 and appear as a separate number in question
10. Previous years’ surveys included fringe benefits in salaries and wages reported.
10 Fringe benefits include pension, unemployment compensation, health services, group life insurance,
Social Security, and medical insurance.
16 Reference Transactions for last year’s survey were inaccurate. This year’s number is accurate.
20 The total number includes 7,380 searches through EBSCOhost and 283,937 searches through
Summon.
CORNELL
Library branches included: Includes all libraries on the Ithaca, New York City, and Geneva NY
campuses: Adelson (ornithology), Africana, Annex, Asia Collections, Engineering (virtual library),
Fine Arts, Hotel, Industrial &Labor Relations, Law, Management, Mann (agricultural &life sciences)/
Entomology, Mathematics, Music, Olin/Uris (humanities &social sciences), Physical Sciences (virtual
library), Rare &Manuscript Collections, and Veterinary Libraries in Ithaca Medical Center Archives
and Medical Library in New York City and New York Agricultural Experiment Station Library in
Geneva NY.
Library branches NOT included: Excludes the library at the Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar.
This is the first time counts for the Medical Library and the Medical Center Archives in New York
City are included in the CUL totals.
1 The count excludes microforms cataloged with print, as well as e-books created through CUL’s
collaboration with Google. The deduplication between Ithaca/Geneva and NYC is an estimate.
2 See the notes for Electronic Books.
4 Excludes e-books created through CUL’s collaboration with Google. Includes some duplication
between packages yet to be determined, and some streaming audio and visual counts that cannot be
separated at this time.
6 Includes $2,782,332 for grants tracked through the Office of Sponsored Programs. Includes $47,558
in in-year returns to a college. Materials expenditures exclude Qatar’s contribution to shared
e-resources. Includes significant materials expenditures on one-time funds.
7 The requested breakouts cannot be provided. See also previous note.
8.a Includes expenditures for academic and exempt staff.
8.b Includes expenditures for non-academic, non-exempt staff only.
10–11 Unavailable. Benefits for staff in the state-funded units are not paid through the libraries’ budgets
except for staff on sponsored projects on the private side of the university, rates differ between the
Ithaca and NYC campuses. $5,425,871 in benefit expenditures were reported by Ithaca’s privately
funded units the official designated percentage was 35%.
13 Excludes any short-term temporary staff and any positions that were temporarily vacant as of June
30, 2012. Includes 16.03 FTE for grant projects tracked through the Office of Sponsored Programs.
13.a Includes academic and exempt staff.
13.b Includes non-academic, non-exempt staff only.
