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Question Number Footnote
CORNELL cont.
10 Does not include benefits paid directly by New York State for state employees. Includes $282,746
for grants tracked through the Office of Sponsored Programs. For the first time, the library’s
benefits reporting includes the library’s share of Cornell Children’s Tuition Scholarship
expenditures, which were added to the library budget with the new Cornell budget model
mentioned above.
11 The rate for staff on the endowed side of the Ithaca campus was 36%. The rate for the New York
City campus was 31.7%.
13 Excludes any short-term temporary staff and any positions that were temporarily vacant on
June 30, 2014. Includes 14.42 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.
14, 15 Information transactions and presentations to groups include only those interactions staff
recorded in Count It, CUL’s locally built system for tracking public service transactions. Sessions
related to the celebration of multiple special collections raised the presentations to groups
counts, especially visible here in the number of participants.
16 Most service points collected full counts. Only three service points (circulation desks) sampled.
Information transactions and presentations to groups include only those interactions staff
recorded in Count It, CUL’s locally built system for tracking public service transactions.
17 Includes ILL lending and Rare &Manuscript Collections transactions.
18 The count is for calendar year 2013. Includes counts for users in Qatar for subscriptions shared
between campuses. Includes e-journal JR1 use (HTML and PDF) of resources of COUNTER-
compliant publishers/vendors and some non-COUNTER-compliant vendors CUL tracked in
previous years to retain consistency. The count attempts to remove any duplicate reporting
between resources, and between campuses.
22 Traditional (vs. Borrow Direct) ILL includes some of the requests submitted by CUL patrons for
items that were available at CUL.
24 This is the FY 2013 sum of the two NCES measures “Number of Doctor’s degree-research/
scholarship programs offered” and “Number of Doctor’s degree-professional practice programs
offered.”
25 From this year on, this is NCES’s measure “Instructional Staff”. In 2011–2012 and 2012–2013, this
figure additionally included the staff WCMC reported to NCES under “librarians, curators and
archivists,” as WCMC considers librarians instructional staff.
DARTMOUTH
Library branches included: Baker-Berry Library, Feldberg Business &Engineering Library,
Kresge Physical Sciences Library, Paddock Music Library, Rauner Special Collections, Sherman
Art Library, and Storage Library.
4 Electronic books not counted as part of any individual library section, total overall for college is
731,574. Increasing digital collection.
7.c A category of collection support that had not been included in the past is now being included.
9 Yearly fluctuations due to purchasing needs.
11 Fringe benefits at 34.5% include amounts for all regular and term employees. The fringe rate for
temporary employees is 9%, and there is no fringe charged for student assistants.
12 NA
14, 15 Increased outreach and yearly fluctuations due to class needs.
Question Number Footnote
CORNELL cont.
10 Does not include benefits paid directly by New York State for state employees. Includes $282,746
for grants tracked through the Office of Sponsored Programs. For the first time, the library’s
benefits reporting includes the library’s share of Cornell Children’s Tuition Scholarship
expenditures, which were added to the library budget with the new Cornell budget model
mentioned above.
11 The rate for staff on the endowed side of the Ithaca campus was 36%. The rate for the New York
City campus was 31.7%.
13 Excludes any short-term temporary staff and any positions that were temporarily vacant on
June 30, 2014. Includes 14.42 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.
14, 15 Information transactions and presentations to groups include only those interactions staff
recorded in Count It, CUL’s locally built system for tracking public service transactions. Sessions
related to the celebration of multiple special collections raised the presentations to groups
counts, especially visible here in the number of participants.
16 Most service points collected full counts. Only three service points (circulation desks) sampled.
Information transactions and presentations to groups include only those interactions staff
recorded in Count It, CUL’s locally built system for tracking public service transactions.
17 Includes ILL lending and Rare &Manuscript Collections transactions.
18 The count is for calendar year 2013. Includes counts for users in Qatar for subscriptions shared
between campuses. Includes e-journal JR1 use (HTML and PDF) of resources of COUNTER-
compliant publishers/vendors and some non-COUNTER-compliant vendors CUL tracked in
previous years to retain consistency. The count attempts to remove any duplicate reporting
between resources, and between campuses.
22 Traditional (vs. Borrow Direct) ILL includes some of the requests submitted by CUL patrons for
items that were available at CUL.
24 This is the FY 2013 sum of the two NCES measures “Number of Doctor’s degree-research/
scholarship programs offered” and “Number of Doctor’s degree-professional practice programs
offered.”
25 From this year on, this is NCES’s measure “Instructional Staff”. In 2011–2012 and 2012–2013, this
figure additionally included the staff WCMC reported to NCES under “librarians, curators and
archivists,” as WCMC considers librarians instructional staff.
DARTMOUTH
Library branches included: Baker-Berry Library, Feldberg Business &Engineering Library,
Kresge Physical Sciences Library, Paddock Music Library, Rauner Special Collections, Sherman
Art Library, and Storage Library.
4 Electronic books not counted as part of any individual library section, total overall for college is
731,574. Increasing digital collection.
7.c A category of collection support that had not been included in the past is now being included.
9 Yearly fluctuations due to purchasing needs.
11 Fringe benefits at 34.5% include amounts for all regular and term employees. The fringe rate for
temporary employees is 9%, and there is no fringe charged for student assistants.
12 NA
14, 15 Increased outreach and yearly fluctuations due to class needs.
