119 ARL Statistics 2014–2015
Question Number Footnote
NATL ARCHIVES cont.
1 Figure represents titles held in the library ONLY. Data for all other questions represents totals
for the entire agency rather than just the library.
6–8, 9 Total appropriations.
14, 15 PMRS Customer satisfaction with education programs
16 PMRS/Research Room Pulls/Number of Requests Completed. Could not identify source of
previous year number possibly Library only.
NATL LIB OF MEDICINE
All figures are as of 09/30/2015.
4 Increase reported due to planned collection growth in the NLM digital repository and the NCBI
Bookshelf.
7–7.b Increase due to serials vendor bankruptcy resulting in a shift of expenditures such that two-
years of expenses were expended in a single year.
7.a Includes Memberships, Monographs, AVs, and non-contract Serials. Due to serials vendor
bankruptcy, shifted many one time purchases to this year for one year only.
7.b Moved some expenditures to this year using funds available due to serials vendor bankruptcy.
7.c Began including costs for Contract Shelving, Barcode labels, and Archival/Conservation
supplies in FY15. Contract Binding/Binding Prep.: $339,986. Contract Shelving: $539,270.
Bibliographic Utility, OCLC: $60,848. Security labels: $14,908. Barcode labels: $2,702.
Archival/Conservation Supplies: $30,259.
8.c Student staff reduced due to local hiring freeze during Director vacancy.
10 Includes the employer share of taxes, health and life insurance, and retirement.
11 There is no official percentage amount for US Federal Employees as the amount depends on
the employee’s type of appointment and the benefits they select. NLM has provided an average
benefit percentage amount.
16 Includes questions answered by phone and e-mail. NLM had previously counted inquiries
regarding access to collection materials as reference transactions, but these requests are no
longer included.
17 All are onsite reading room requests.
18–19 NLM does not have COUNTER compliant usage statistics data available.
20 N/A
22 This number fluctuates depending on special projects, such as exhibitions.
23 As NLM does not formally collect gate count statistics no data is available.
NEW YORK PUBLIC
Library branches included: All Research Libraries sites.
NEW YORK STATE
Due to capacity issues, note that the 2013–14 data are the same as the 2014–15 data.
SMITHSONIAN
Smithsonian Libraries’ Fiscal Year runs from October 1 through September 30.
Library branches included: Smithsonian Libraries 21 locations:
1. National Air and Space Museum Library, Washington, DC
2. National Museum of American History, Washington, DC
3. National Museum of Natural History Library, Washington, DC
4. National Postal Museum Library, Washington, DC
5. National Zoological Park Library, Washington, DC
6. Smithsonian American Art Museum, National Portrait Gallery Library, Washington, DC
Question Number Footnote
NATL ARCHIVES cont.
1 Figure represents titles held in the library ONLY. Data for all other questions represents totals
for the entire agency rather than just the library.
6–8, 9 Total appropriations.
14, 15 PMRS Customer satisfaction with education programs
16 PMRS/Research Room Pulls/Number of Requests Completed. Could not identify source of
previous year number possibly Library only.
NATL LIB OF MEDICINE
All figures are as of 09/30/2015.
4 Increase reported due to planned collection growth in the NLM digital repository and the NCBI
Bookshelf.
7–7.b Increase due to serials vendor bankruptcy resulting in a shift of expenditures such that two-
years of expenses were expended in a single year.
7.a Includes Memberships, Monographs, AVs, and non-contract Serials. Due to serials vendor
bankruptcy, shifted many one time purchases to this year for one year only.
7.b Moved some expenditures to this year using funds available due to serials vendor bankruptcy.
7.c Began including costs for Contract Shelving, Barcode labels, and Archival/Conservation
supplies in FY15. Contract Binding/Binding Prep.: $339,986. Contract Shelving: $539,270.
Bibliographic Utility, OCLC: $60,848. Security labels: $14,908. Barcode labels: $2,702.
Archival/Conservation Supplies: $30,259.
8.c Student staff reduced due to local hiring freeze during Director vacancy.
10 Includes the employer share of taxes, health and life insurance, and retirement.
11 There is no official percentage amount for US Federal Employees as the amount depends on
the employee’s type of appointment and the benefits they select. NLM has provided an average
benefit percentage amount.
16 Includes questions answered by phone and e-mail. NLM had previously counted inquiries
regarding access to collection materials as reference transactions, but these requests are no
longer included.
17 All are onsite reading room requests.
18–19 NLM does not have COUNTER compliant usage statistics data available.
20 N/A
22 This number fluctuates depending on special projects, such as exhibitions.
23 As NLM does not formally collect gate count statistics no data is available.
NEW YORK PUBLIC
Library branches included: All Research Libraries sites.
NEW YORK STATE
Due to capacity issues, note that the 2013–14 data are the same as the 2014–15 data.
SMITHSONIAN
Smithsonian Libraries’ Fiscal Year runs from October 1 through September 30.
Library branches included: Smithsonian Libraries 21 locations:
1. National Air and Space Museum Library, Washington, DC
2. National Museum of American History, Washington, DC
3. National Museum of Natural History Library, Washington, DC
4. National Postal Museum Library, Washington, DC
5. National Zoological Park Library, Washington, DC
6. Smithsonian American Art Museum, National Portrait Gallery Library, Washington, DC
