ARL Statistics 2014-2015

Morris, Shaneka; Roebuck, Gary

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PRINCETON cont.
4 Included for the first time, cataloged e-book titles that come as part of leased and aggregate
services.
18 Data only partially available due to system migration.
PURDUE
All figures are as of 06/30/2015.
Library branches included: Includes the library system on the West Lafayette campus,
consisting of 11 subject-oriented libraries, an undergraduate library, and an archives and special
collections research center.
1 Total number of items, not unique as in previous years produced a variance over 25%.
2 Physical &Electronic item count reduced in comparison to previous years.
4 Count from ALMA.
17 Decrease is due to a mistake in numbers from past years, which accidentally included reserve
loans.
QUEEN’S
All figures are as of 04/30/2015.
Library branches included: Stauffer Humanities and Social Sciences Douglas Engineering
and Science Bracken Health Science WD Jordan Special Collections Lederman Law and
Education.
6–9, 10, 12 Expenditures as reported in Canadian dollars — Collections Expenditures: (7a) $877,166 (7b)
$9,234,263 (7c) $717,086 (7) $10,828,515 Salary Expenditures: (8a) $4,273,273 (8b) $3,431,569
(8c) $347,466 (8) $8,052,308 (10) $1,895,432 Overall Expenditures: (7) $10,828,515 (8)
$8,052,308 (9) $1,211,600 (6) $20,092,423 (12) NA/UA. NOTE: Total Salaries and Wages (Q8)
EXCLUDES Fringe Benefits Expenditures (Q10).
7.a Decline in the number of monographs purchased in favor of Electronic.
13.a Vacant positions filled.
15 Increased focus on teaching.
17 Declining focus on the use of print by users.
18 More of our resources are now being tracked through Counter.
20 There are additional Federated Searches through databases such as Proquest, but we have
decided to limit our results to our Summon Searches.
RICE
All figures are as of 06/30/2015.
Library branches included: Fondren Library, and the Business Information Center.
6, 7 Increase due to additional one-time money from university, single large special collections
purchase of archival papers and some money held over from FY14.
6, 9 Increase in operating funds reflects administrative accounting changes in gift and endowment
funds.
ROCHESTER
All figures are as of 06/30/2015.
Library branches included: Includes the Eastman School of Music Sibley Music Library.
1 Includes Edward G. Miner Library.
3 354,785 volumes come from physical count.
4 Includes Edward G. Miner Library.
7.c Commercial binding, $26,945 Document delivery, $11,320.

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PRINCETON cont.
4 Included for the first time, cataloged e-book titles that come as part of leased and aggregate
services.
18 Data only partially available due to system migration.
PURDUE
All figures are as of 06/30/2015.
Library branches included: Includes the library system on the West Lafayette campus,
consisting of 11 subject-oriented libraries, an undergraduate library, and an archives and special
collections research center.
1 Total number of items, not unique as in previous years produced a variance over 25%.
2 Physical &Electronic item count reduced in comparison to previous years.
4 Count from ALMA.
17 Decrease is due to a mistake in numbers from past years, which accidentally included reserve
loans.
QUEEN’S
All figures are as of 04/30/2015.
Library branches included: Stauffer Humanities and Social Sciences Douglas Engineering
and Science Bracken Health Science WD Jordan Special Collections Lederman Law and
Education.
6–9, 10, 12 Expenditures as reported in Canadian dollars — Collections Expenditures: (7a) $877,166 (7b)
$9,234,263 (7c) $717,086 (7) $10,828,515 Salary Expenditures: (8a) $4,273,273 (8b) $3,431,569
(8c) $347,466 (8) $8,052,308 (10) $1,895,432 Overall Expenditures: (7) $10,828,515 (8)
$8,052,308 (9) $1,211,600 (6) $20,092,423 (12) NA/UA. NOTE: Total Salaries and Wages (Q8)
EXCLUDES Fringe Benefits Expenditures (Q10).
7.a Decline in the number of monographs purchased in favor of Electronic.
13.a Vacant positions filled.
15 Increased focus on teaching.
17 Declining focus on the use of print by users.
18 More of our resources are now being tracked through Counter.
20 There are additional Federated Searches through databases such as Proquest, but we have
decided to limit our results to our Summon Searches.
RICE
All figures are as of 06/30/2015.
Library branches included: Fondren Library, and the Business Information Center.
6, 7 Increase due to additional one-time money from university, single large special collections
purchase of archival papers and some money held over from FY14.
6, 9 Increase in operating funds reflects administrative accounting changes in gift and endowment
funds.
ROCHESTER
All figures are as of 06/30/2015.
Library branches included: Includes the Eastman School of Music Sibley Music Library.
1 Includes Edward G. Miner Library.
3 354,785 volumes come from physical count.
4 Includes Edward G. Miner Library.
7.c Commercial binding, $26,945 Document delivery, $11,320.

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PENNSYLVANIA
Library branches included: Communication, Law, Biomedical, Judaic Studies, Chemistry,
Dental, Fine Arts, Business, Math/Physics/Astronomy, Museum, Music, Special Collections,
Veterinary, and High-Density Storage.
14 Penn Libraries (not including law) transitioned to a new mechanism for counting instructional
sessions. Due to this transition, we believe there was some data loss.
19 Database searches (regular) are significantly lower than earlier counts because so many more
vendors have started complying with the COUNTER 4 Code.
24 Number of Doctor’s Degrees awarded is the same number as 2013–14. This is coincidence and
not error.
PENNSYLVANIA STATE
All figures are as of 06/30/2015.
Library branches included: Survey includes all University Park Libraries, as well as the Campus
Libraries. Campus Library locations are as follows: Abington, Altoona, Behrend, Berks, Beaver,
Brandywine, DuBois, Fayette, Great Valley, Greater Allegheny, Harrisburg, Hazleton, Lehigh
Valley, Mont Alto, New Kensington, Schuylkill, Shenango Valley, Wilkes-Barre, Worthington-
Scranton, and York.
All electronic resource use data for both Law Libraries and most electronic resource use data of
the Health Science Library are included in figures reported for question 18, due to the setup and
reporting features of the Penn State electronic resource discovery system.
11 Editor’s Note: Published figure reflects the official designated percent for the Health Sciences
Library (37.9%), as this is the maximum value entered for this question. Sent a correction to
e-books on Law Libraries surveys.
19–20 Due to incompatibilities within our reporting systems for electronic resources, we do not feel
we can produce accurate use figures for this fiscal year. We are therefore not reporting data for
lines 19 and 20.
PITTSBURGH
All figures are as of 06/30/2015.
Library branches included: The University Library System includes the Allegheny Observatory
Library, Archives Service Center, African American Collection, Buhl Social Work Collection,
Center for American Music, Chemistry Library, Computer Science Collection, Special
Collections, Bevier Engineering Library, East Asian Collection, Frick Fine Arts Library, Hillman
Library, Langley Library, Music Library, Library Collections Storage Unit, Katz Business and the
Regional Campuses of Bradford, Greensburg, Johnstown, and Titusville. The Health Sciences
Library System includes the Falk Library of the Health Sciences, the UPMC Shadyside Libraries,
and the Children’s Hospital Library.
Library branches NOT included: N/A.
7.c The amount reported for 2013–2014 was underreported by $195,895.17.
8.c The student hourly rate increased by $0.90 in 2014–2015.
9 In 2014–2015 ULS created new spaces to accommodate new Digital Services area at Hillman
Library.
19 This number is significantly lower than reported last year when we reported a sum of “regular
searches” and “sessions.” This year only “regular searches” are included.
20 Data not available.
PRINCETON
Library branches included: East Asian, Marquand Art, Stokes Public and International Affairs,
Music, Architecture, Mudd Archives, Lewis Science, Engineering, and Furth Plasma Physics.

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ROCHESTER cont.
11 Professional staff is 28.60 percent. Support staff is 35.30 percent.
14.a Count of 294 presentations based on sampling.
15.a Count of 2,257 participants not based on sampling.
16.a Count of 1,555 reference transactions not based on sampling.
18 Includes: American Chemical Society, Cambridge, Highwire, IEEE, Informaworld, IOP, JSTOR,
OUP, Project Muse, ScienceDirect, Springer, and Wiley.
19 Includes: Proquest, EBSCOhost, Gale Cengage, and Web of Science.
RUTGERS
All figures are as of 06/30/2015.
Library branches included: Institution-level aggregated totals shown in this publication include
Newark Law Library, Camden Law Library, and libraries at universities in Camden, Newark,
and New Brunswick and Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences.
6 Significant permanent budget cut due to decrease in state appropriation.
9 Significant permanent budget cut due to decrease in state appropriation while at the same time
increasing permanent costs like inflation and contractual salary increases required reallocation
elsewhere.
10 Fringe benefits paid for professional staff and support staff.
11 Editor’s Note: Published figure reflects the official designated percent for Rutgers’ two Law
Libraries (40.45%), as this is the maximum value entered for this question.
13, 13.b Positions were held unfilled due to budget concerns and pending arrival of new leadership.
20 Statistics reported are for EDS (discovery) for January–December 2014.
24 Preliminary counts for degrees conferred October 2014, January 2015, May 2015.
25 14 PhD fields duplicated in Newark, Camden, Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, and
New Brunswick.
SASKATCHEWAN
All figures are as of 04/30/2015.
Library branches included: All 7 library branches: Education &Music, Engineering, Health
Sciences, Law, Murray (Arts, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Business), Science, and
Veterinary Medicine. Also includes Special Collections.
Library branches NOT included: Theological College libraries on campus that are not part of the
library system.
6–9, 10, 12 Expenditures as reported in Canadian dollars — Collections Expenditures: (7a) $1,692,012 (7b)
$11,389,586 (7c) $429,692 (7) $13,511,290 Salary Expenditures: (8a) $5,924,870 (8b) $3,495,720
(8c) $319,126 (8) $9,739,716 (10) $1,568,971 Overall Expenditures: (7) $13,511,290 (8) $9,739,716
(9) $1,636,046 (6) $24,887,052 (12) NA/UA. NOTE: Total Salaries and Wages (Q8) EXCLUDES
Fringe Benefits Expenditures (Q10).
6 The increase in costs over the prior year is due to the growth in library acquisitions of $976k and
is offset by lower salary costs of $209k and other operating costs of $335k.
7 Increase due to purchasing more ongoing resources during the year, which is detailed below.
7.a Subject funds expenditures decreased mainly to offset the overspending on serials.
7.b This year much of the budget’s increase went towards serial purchases accounting for about
$1M in growth and overspent by about $300k.
7.c Support costs remained relatively the same and went down slightly due to more GST rebates.

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