96 · ARL Statistics 2011–2012
Question
Number
Footnote
INDIANA, cont.
16 The increase in reference transaction is twofold: subject specialists believe that due to enhanced
discovery and web services, students are reaching them later in their research process and are being
referred to them in greater numbers, and most staff are recording transactions in an online portal,
which is easier than maintaining manual counts.
17 As the library acquires more electronic resources with the majority of the collections budget going
to those resources, the circulation of print material continues to decrease. Many of the libraries’ print
resources have been digitized by the Google Books project so an electronic version of book in library
stacks is also available.
18 Data for this question supplied by compiling JR1 reports. Resources reported: 28,540.
19 Indiana University’s Bloomington campus had a marked increase in total database searches this year
due to the implementation of EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS), a new discovery search tool, in August
of 2011. EDS allows users to search multiple data sources at one time using a single search box. By
creating a unified index of most of the libraries databases, EDS can search the library catalog, a large
publisher-provided dataset of abstracts &indexes, and all EBSCO content to which the Libraries
subscribe. Each one of the EBSCO resources contained within the EDS search set will log a search
each time that EDS is used. This caused our database searches, click, and record views to increase
699.93% from FY2011 to FY2012. This increased number is an accurate reflection of the actual number
of searches run on our databases, but it should be noted that the majority of the searches were
automated searches resulting from the use of EDS.
19–20 Data supplied by compiling DR1 reports. Number of resources reported: 832.
21–22 Includes IUB Libraries and IUB Law Library.
23 FY12 survey includes professional practice degrees which had not been included in previous surveys.
IOWA
Library branches included: Art, Business, Engineering, Music, and Sciences.
Data from the Law and Health Sciences Libraries are included in the figures reported.
Significant differences in figures.
1 1,049,524 HathiTrust titles removed from catalog.
2 195,686 volumes that were pending withdrawal (titles had been suppressed already) were removed
this last year.
8.a Including programming staff that support the Libraries but not directly from Libraries’ budget.
11 Rate for professional &scientific classification.
12 Credits continually offset expenses.
13 Includes 3 FTE programmers who support the Libraries but not paid directly from Libraries’ budget.
18–20 Number pulled from Serials Solutions. Unable to break out separate health sciences data.
IOWA STATE
Library branches included: 1) Iowa State University Library -Parks Library =Main Library, 2)
Veterinary Medical Library -Branch Library, 3) Special Collections data is also included in this
survey.
11 Fringe rate for Faculty 29.8%, Professional and Scientific 36.3%, Merit Staff 49%.
17 In general, our circulation is decreasing. One factor that is perhaps accelerating the rate of decline is
the fact that we have circulated bound journal volumes for some time. As more and more journals
become available online, we suspect the circulation of bound journal volumes is declining very
rapidly.
Question
Number
Footnote
INDIANA, cont.
16 The increase in reference transaction is twofold: subject specialists believe that due to enhanced
discovery and web services, students are reaching them later in their research process and are being
referred to them in greater numbers, and most staff are recording transactions in an online portal,
which is easier than maintaining manual counts.
17 As the library acquires more electronic resources with the majority of the collections budget going
to those resources, the circulation of print material continues to decrease. Many of the libraries’ print
resources have been digitized by the Google Books project so an electronic version of book in library
stacks is also available.
18 Data for this question supplied by compiling JR1 reports. Resources reported: 28,540.
19 Indiana University’s Bloomington campus had a marked increase in total database searches this year
due to the implementation of EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS), a new discovery search tool, in August
of 2011. EDS allows users to search multiple data sources at one time using a single search box. By
creating a unified index of most of the libraries databases, EDS can search the library catalog, a large
publisher-provided dataset of abstracts &indexes, and all EBSCO content to which the Libraries
subscribe. Each one of the EBSCO resources contained within the EDS search set will log a search
each time that EDS is used. This caused our database searches, click, and record views to increase
699.93% from FY2011 to FY2012. This increased number is an accurate reflection of the actual number
of searches run on our databases, but it should be noted that the majority of the searches were
automated searches resulting from the use of EDS.
19–20 Data supplied by compiling DR1 reports. Number of resources reported: 832.
21–22 Includes IUB Libraries and IUB Law Library.
23 FY12 survey includes professional practice degrees which had not been included in previous surveys.
IOWA
Library branches included: Art, Business, Engineering, Music, and Sciences.
Data from the Law and Health Sciences Libraries are included in the figures reported.
Significant differences in figures.
1 1,049,524 HathiTrust titles removed from catalog.
2 195,686 volumes that were pending withdrawal (titles had been suppressed already) were removed
this last year.
8.a Including programming staff that support the Libraries but not directly from Libraries’ budget.
11 Rate for professional &scientific classification.
12 Credits continually offset expenses.
13 Includes 3 FTE programmers who support the Libraries but not paid directly from Libraries’ budget.
18–20 Number pulled from Serials Solutions. Unable to break out separate health sciences data.
IOWA STATE
Library branches included: 1) Iowa State University Library -Parks Library =Main Library, 2)
Veterinary Medical Library -Branch Library, 3) Special Collections data is also included in this
survey.
11 Fringe rate for Faculty 29.8%, Professional and Scientific 36.3%, Merit Staff 49%.
17 In general, our circulation is decreasing. One factor that is perhaps accelerating the rate of decline is
the fact that we have circulated bound journal volumes for some time. As more and more journals
become available online, we suspect the circulation of bound journal volumes is declining very
rapidly.
