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Question Number Footnote
CORNELL cont.
Library branches included: Includes all libraries and special collections on the Ithaca, New York
City and Geneva NY campuses: Adelson (ornithology), Africana, Annex (remote storage facility),
Asia Collections, Engineering (virtual library), Fine Arts, Hospitality/Labor/Management,
Law, Mann (agricultural &life sciences), Mathematics, Music, Olin/Uris (humanities &social
sciences), Physical Sciences (virtual library), Rare &Manuscript Collections and Veterinary
Libraries in Ithaca, Medical Library and Medical Center Archives in New York City, and New
York Agricultural Experiment Station Library in Geneva NY. IPEDS UnitIDs: 190415, 190424.
Library branches NOT included: Excludes the library at the Weill Cornell Medical College in
Qatar.
1, 4 An estimate of the duplication between the Ithaca/Geneva and NYC campuses was excluded.
Includes some open access items selected and cataloged in the OPAC to support research
and educational needs. Excludes more than 1.7 million e-books in the China Academic Digital
Associative Library that are not cataloged at the title level in the OPAC. Includes some
duplication between packages.
6, 7, 9 Includes $2,636,166 (excluding benefits) for grants tracked through the Office of Sponsored
Programs.
7 The requested breakouts cannot be provided. Materials expenditures exclude Qatar’s
contribution to shared e-resources.
8.a, 13.a Includes expenditures for academic and exempt staff.
8.b, 13.b Includes expenditures for non-academic, non-exempt staff.
9 General operating excludes $8,001,098 in building-related university allocated costs that
became part of the Library budget in FY14 with the new Cornell budget model, which was
designed to make campus expenditures more transparent. Also excludes $2,067,934 for
outfitting the latest remote storage module.
10 Does not include benefits paid directly by New York State for state employees. Includes
$472,903 for grants tracked through the Office of Sponsored Programs.
11 The rate for staff on the endowed side of the Ithaca campus was 37%. The rate for the New York
City campus was 32%.
13 Excludes any short-term temporary staff and any positions that were temporarily vacant on
June 30, 2015. Includes 13.4 FTE for grant projects tracked through the Office of Sponsored
Programs. (Some Sponsored Programs FTE figures reported earlier were mistakenly high.)
14, 16 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.
16.a Only a few of the libraries sampled, and only at their circulation desks.
17 Includes returnable ILL lending and Rare &Manuscript Collections transactions.
18 The count is for calendar year 2014. 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.
25 This is the 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.”
26 As of FY14, this is NCES’s measure “Instructional Staff.” In 2011/12 and 2012/13, this figure
additionally included the staff WCMC reported to NCES under “librarians, curators and
archivists,” as WCMC considers librarians instructional staff.
Question Number Footnote
CORNELL cont.
Library branches included: Includes all libraries and special collections on the Ithaca, New York
City and Geneva NY campuses: Adelson (ornithology), Africana, Annex (remote storage facility),
Asia Collections, Engineering (virtual library), Fine Arts, Hospitality/Labor/Management,
Law, Mann (agricultural &life sciences), Mathematics, Music, Olin/Uris (humanities &social
sciences), Physical Sciences (virtual library), Rare &Manuscript Collections and Veterinary
Libraries in Ithaca, Medical Library and Medical Center Archives in New York City, and New
York Agricultural Experiment Station Library in Geneva NY. IPEDS UnitIDs: 190415, 190424.
Library branches NOT included: Excludes the library at the Weill Cornell Medical College in
Qatar.
1, 4 An estimate of the duplication between the Ithaca/Geneva and NYC campuses was excluded.
Includes some open access items selected and cataloged in the OPAC to support research
and educational needs. Excludes more than 1.7 million e-books in the China Academic Digital
Associative Library that are not cataloged at the title level in the OPAC. Includes some
duplication between packages.
6, 7, 9 Includes $2,636,166 (excluding benefits) for grants tracked through the Office of Sponsored
Programs.
7 The requested breakouts cannot be provided. Materials expenditures exclude Qatar’s
contribution to shared e-resources.
8.a, 13.a Includes expenditures for academic and exempt staff.
8.b, 13.b Includes expenditures for non-academic, non-exempt staff.
9 General operating excludes $8,001,098 in building-related university allocated costs that
became part of the Library budget in FY14 with the new Cornell budget model, which was
designed to make campus expenditures more transparent. Also excludes $2,067,934 for
outfitting the latest remote storage module.
10 Does not include benefits paid directly by New York State for state employees. Includes
$472,903 for grants tracked through the Office of Sponsored Programs.
11 The rate for staff on the endowed side of the Ithaca campus was 37%. The rate for the New York
City campus was 32%.
13 Excludes any short-term temporary staff and any positions that were temporarily vacant on
June 30, 2015. Includes 13.4 FTE for grant projects tracked through the Office of Sponsored
Programs. (Some Sponsored Programs FTE figures reported earlier were mistakenly high.)
14, 16 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.
16.a Only a few of the libraries sampled, and only at their circulation desks.
17 Includes returnable ILL lending and Rare &Manuscript Collections transactions.
18 The count is for calendar year 2014. 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.
25 This is the 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.”
26 As of FY14, this is NCES’s measure “Instructional Staff.” In 2011/12 and 2012/13, this figure
additionally included the staff WCMC reported to NCES under “librarians, curators and
archivists,” as WCMC considers librarians instructional staff.
