110 Footnotes
Question Number Footnote
SYRACUSE cont.
13.a, 13.b Staff departures due to other opportunities and retirements during period of ongoing hiring
freeze.
13.c Increased use of students to compensate for staff departures due to other opportunities and
retirements during period of ongoing hiring freeze.
18–20 In order to improve reporting and consistency of data, significant efforts were made this year
to have additional vendors added to harvesting list for our ERM vendor, as well as updating all
contact/login information.
TEMPLE
All figures are as of 06/30/2015.
Library branches included: Ambler Library, Charles Blockson Afro-American Collection,
Harrisburg Library, Special Collections Research Center, and the Science &Engineering
Library.
20 Not applicable.
23 Provided for main library only.
TENNESSEE
All figures are as of 06/30/2015.
Library branches included: UT Libraries Knoxville (Hodges [Main] Library), Pendergrass
Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine Library, Devine Music Library, Social Work Library [in
Nashville], and UT Space Institute Library.
1, 2, 17 A change in systems resulted in a slight change in the way this metric is counted.
20 A reporting change allowed federated searches to be more thoroughly counted than previous
years.
23 The AgVet library branch was closed for two months in FY15 for facilities work.
24 A change in how these are counted accounts for the difference from last year.
TEXAS
All figures are as of 08/31/2015.
Library branches included: University of Texas at Austin Libraries, the Briscoe Center for
American History, the Tarlton Law Library, and the Harry Ransom Center.
2 The volume count includes e-books such as EBL, MyILibrary, ebrary, Gale Virtual Reference,
ARTFL, CIAO, LION, Evans Early American Imprints, Making of Modern Law, Sabin
Americana, Making of America, Oxford Reference Books online, Gerritsen, History eBook
(now Humanities), OECD, World Bank eLibrary, Annual Reviews, Si Ku Quan Shu, Old English
Corpus, Heritage Quest, Stat Reference, Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, and CHANT -Chinese
Ancient Texts.
7 Includes total expenditures for library materials of $22,256,243 by the University Libraries,
$1,372,107 by the Tarlton Law Library, and $4,470,779, by the Harry Ransom Humanities
Research Center.
8.c Includes federal work-study funds.
9 The decrease can likely be attributed to the one-time funding of $4M received in 2014 to do
extensive renovations to the main library.
11 32% is the official designated percent for salaried staff. 8.4% is the official designated percent for
wage staff.
16.a There is a mixture of sampling and non-sampling that was used to generate this figure.
18 We counted statistics for July 2014 to June 2015 because this was the most current full year of
statistics available to us through our statistics tool, Intota Assessment, due to the tools biannual
upload schedule.
Question Number Footnote
SYRACUSE cont.
13.a, 13.b Staff departures due to other opportunities and retirements during period of ongoing hiring
freeze.
13.c Increased use of students to compensate for staff departures due to other opportunities and
retirements during period of ongoing hiring freeze.
18–20 In order to improve reporting and consistency of data, significant efforts were made this year
to have additional vendors added to harvesting list for our ERM vendor, as well as updating all
contact/login information.
TEMPLE
All figures are as of 06/30/2015.
Library branches included: Ambler Library, Charles Blockson Afro-American Collection,
Harrisburg Library, Special Collections Research Center, and the Science &Engineering
Library.
20 Not applicable.
23 Provided for main library only.
TENNESSEE
All figures are as of 06/30/2015.
Library branches included: UT Libraries Knoxville (Hodges [Main] Library), Pendergrass
Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine Library, Devine Music Library, Social Work Library [in
Nashville], and UT Space Institute Library.
1, 2, 17 A change in systems resulted in a slight change in the way this metric is counted.
20 A reporting change allowed federated searches to be more thoroughly counted than previous
years.
23 The AgVet library branch was closed for two months in FY15 for facilities work.
24 A change in how these are counted accounts for the difference from last year.
TEXAS
All figures are as of 08/31/2015.
Library branches included: University of Texas at Austin Libraries, the Briscoe Center for
American History, the Tarlton Law Library, and the Harry Ransom Center.
2 The volume count includes e-books such as EBL, MyILibrary, ebrary, Gale Virtual Reference,
ARTFL, CIAO, LION, Evans Early American Imprints, Making of Modern Law, Sabin
Americana, Making of America, Oxford Reference Books online, Gerritsen, History eBook
(now Humanities), OECD, World Bank eLibrary, Annual Reviews, Si Ku Quan Shu, Old English
Corpus, Heritage Quest, Stat Reference, Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, and CHANT -Chinese
Ancient Texts.
7 Includes total expenditures for library materials of $22,256,243 by the University Libraries,
$1,372,107 by the Tarlton Law Library, and $4,470,779, by the Harry Ransom Humanities
Research Center.
8.c Includes federal work-study funds.
9 The decrease can likely be attributed to the one-time funding of $4M received in 2014 to do
extensive renovations to the main library.
11 32% is the official designated percent for salaried staff. 8.4% is the official designated percent for
wage staff.
16.a There is a mixture of sampling and non-sampling that was used to generate this figure.
18 We counted statistics for July 2014 to June 2015 because this was the most current full year of
statistics available to us through our statistics tool, Intota Assessment, due to the tools biannual
upload schedule.
