98 Footnotes
Question Number Footnote
NORTHWESTERN cont.
8.c With combined service points and condensed work units, student assistants were assigned
multi-purpose jobs, which allowed for a reduced workforce.
13.a–13.b Main Library had a number of vacancies throughout the year with no positions lost.
15 Main Library continued to engage the students with targeted outreach and increased
advertising to reach a wider audience.
16 It is difficult to say if the lower number of Main Library reference transactions is due to
underreporting, or to other sources of instruction to students to learn to find information better
on their own initiative.
17 As the online collections continue to grow and more e-book content is available, the circulation
statistics may ebb and flow over the years. Anecdotally, there are researchers in the social
sciences doing research using online books.
19 Lower database searches could be the result of multiple and hard to track reasons. A few
publishers changed platforms and the method of gathering statistics this year. Some students
may learn to prefer one over another as some publisher statistics went up.
20 Federated searches are not used as much since discontinuing the software that promoted those
searches at Northwestern. The discovery layer takes care of most of that now. Publishers have
dropped or not tracked this type of search.
25 Northwestern is building new programs to engage the world.
NOTRE DAME
All figures are as of 06/30/2015 [Main Library and University Archives].
Library branches included: The Theodore M. Hesburgh Library (Main Library) (library.nd.edu)
also includes the Center for Digital Scholarship, Medieval Institute Library (library.nd.edu/
medieval), and Rare Books and Special Collections (rare-books.library.nd.edu). BRANCH
LIBRARIES of the Hesburgh Libraries include eight other libraries on campus: Architecture
Library (library.nd.edu/architecture), Mahaffey Business Library (library.nd.edu/business),
Chemistry-Physics Library (library.nd.edu/chemistry, library.nd.edu/physics), Engineering
Library (library.nd.edu/engineering), Kellogg Kroc Library (library.nd.edu/Kellogg Kroc),
O’Meara Mathematics Library (library.nd.edu/mathematics), Radiation Chemistry Reading
Room (library.nd.edu/radiology lab) and Visual Resources Center (library.nd.edu/visual
resource center). Also included in the statistics for the University of Notre Dame Libraries are
the Notre Dame Law School’s Kresge Law Library (law.nd.edu/library) and University Archives.
[Main Library]
Library branches NOT included: International locations such as Notre Dame’s Rome Library
have not been included. [Main Library]
1 The “Titles held” figure of 1,517 represents the number of manuscript collections and
University records series held by the Archives. These collections and series vary in size from
one sheet of paper to several thousand boxes and consist, variously, of manuscripts, printed
materials (including in some cases thousands of books), ephemera, microfilm, AV items,
photographs, digital files, and artifacts. Altogether, our collections contain about 42,000 linear
feet of materials. The definition of “titles” presented in the instructions obscures rather than
illuminates the size and complexity of our holdings. [University Archives]
2 The number of “Volumes held” as defined in the instructions is impossible to accurately
estimate without spending an unwarranted amount of time. [University Archives]
4 Based on an analysis of e-book records added since 2007, current year additions were adjusted
by approximately 126,000 to record batch loads not included in prior years. The large increases
in this format are due to greater demand for electronic resources. [Main Library]
Question Number Footnote
NORTHWESTERN cont.
8.c With combined service points and condensed work units, student assistants were assigned
multi-purpose jobs, which allowed for a reduced workforce.
13.a–13.b Main Library had a number of vacancies throughout the year with no positions lost.
15 Main Library continued to engage the students with targeted outreach and increased
advertising to reach a wider audience.
16 It is difficult to say if the lower number of Main Library reference transactions is due to
underreporting, or to other sources of instruction to students to learn to find information better
on their own initiative.
17 As the online collections continue to grow and more e-book content is available, the circulation
statistics may ebb and flow over the years. Anecdotally, there are researchers in the social
sciences doing research using online books.
19 Lower database searches could be the result of multiple and hard to track reasons. A few
publishers changed platforms and the method of gathering statistics this year. Some students
may learn to prefer one over another as some publisher statistics went up.
20 Federated searches are not used as much since discontinuing the software that promoted those
searches at Northwestern. The discovery layer takes care of most of that now. Publishers have
dropped or not tracked this type of search.
25 Northwestern is building new programs to engage the world.
NOTRE DAME
All figures are as of 06/30/2015 [Main Library and University Archives].
Library branches included: The Theodore M. Hesburgh Library (Main Library) (library.nd.edu)
also includes the Center for Digital Scholarship, Medieval Institute Library (library.nd.edu/
medieval), and Rare Books and Special Collections (rare-books.library.nd.edu). BRANCH
LIBRARIES of the Hesburgh Libraries include eight other libraries on campus: Architecture
Library (library.nd.edu/architecture), Mahaffey Business Library (library.nd.edu/business),
Chemistry-Physics Library (library.nd.edu/chemistry, library.nd.edu/physics), Engineering
Library (library.nd.edu/engineering), Kellogg Kroc Library (library.nd.edu/Kellogg Kroc),
O’Meara Mathematics Library (library.nd.edu/mathematics), Radiation Chemistry Reading
Room (library.nd.edu/radiology lab) and Visual Resources Center (library.nd.edu/visual
resource center). Also included in the statistics for the University of Notre Dame Libraries are
the Notre Dame Law School’s Kresge Law Library (law.nd.edu/library) and University Archives.
[Main Library]
Library branches NOT included: International locations such as Notre Dame’s Rome Library
have not been included. [Main Library]
1 The “Titles held” figure of 1,517 represents the number of manuscript collections and
University records series held by the Archives. These collections and series vary in size from
one sheet of paper to several thousand boxes and consist, variously, of manuscripts, printed
materials (including in some cases thousands of books), ephemera, microfilm, AV items,
photographs, digital files, and artifacts. Altogether, our collections contain about 42,000 linear
feet of materials. The definition of “titles” presented in the instructions obscures rather than
illuminates the size and complexity of our holdings. [University Archives]
2 The number of “Volumes held” as defined in the instructions is impossible to accurately
estimate without spending an unwarranted amount of time. [University Archives]
4 Based on an analysis of e-book records added since 2007, current year additions were adjusted
by approximately 126,000 to record batch loads not included in prior years. The large increases
in this format are due to greater demand for electronic resources. [Main Library]
