85 ARL Statistics 2014–2015
Question Number Footnote
FLORIDA STATE cont.
7.b The institution-level, aggregated total includes a transfer to Law of 1.2 million.
8–10, 13 The institution-level, aggregated totals increased due to merit increases given to FSU staff in
FY14–15 (1.5% in Sept &performance based merit increases in November 2014).
10 The institution-level fringe benefits include: Social Security, Medicare, Retirement, Health
Insurance and Worker’s Compensation.
13.a Main library counts increased in part due to two filled vacant professional staff positions.
14.a Main and the Republic of Panama campus library used sampling for group presentations and
total participants in group presentations. Music and the Republic of Panama Libraries also used
sampling for their reference statistics. Sampling for Main’s figure for reference transactions is
based on taking the average of 2 largest months and smallest two months of both instructional
and reference data.
17 This figure for Main includes: Strozier Dirac Engineering Remote Storage Panama City Beach,
FL Goldstein Music Panama City, Panama and Ringling Libraries. The decrease in the Main
Library’s circulation figure follows a trend for General Collection loans over the past six years as
the addition of e-books coincides with the decline in print circulation.
18 These are the numbers from the consolidated usage reports in Intota Assessment, but ProQuest
was manually added (reports could not be formatted for upload). Regarding collection numbers,
they were supplied via a report of all e-books tracked in Intota, in order to combine and de-dup
with catalog records.
19 The institution-level, aggregated total increased due to stats that have doubled/tripled for many
FSU ProQuest (PQ) databases. PQ has reported that it is primarily an issue with what they call
“modular” databases, or databases that are searchable as one unit but that a library would buy
as separate units. They are looking at possible enhancements to their usage reports in 2015
to reduce the duplication caused by some of the more complex product bundles and modular
products and have said that they will have more information to share over the coming months.
FSU Libraries is in the process of working toward implementing a solution in order to normalize
and document change across time as COUNTER 4 has only been in effect a short while.
20 The institutional-level, aggregated total increased due to reporting number of Discovery Tool
Searches instead of Federated searches (Note: 146,270 =#of sessions).
21 The increase in ILL borrowing is most likely due to cancellations in journal packages for Main
(includes all branch libraries except law and medicine).
22 The decrease in ILL lending might be due to the fact that Main started charging $15 IFM this
past year.
23 Includes the Main library (Strozier), the Science library (Dirac) and the Engineering libraries
data only. Only Strozier and Dirac have turnstile (card swipe) data.
24 Interactive degrees awarded reports by college: http://www.ir.fsu.edu/studentinfo.
cfm?ID=degrees taken from the FSU Office of Institutional Research. Report URL: http://www.
ir.fsu.edu/degreesawarded/degreesawarded.htm.
25 Number taken from the degree program inventory dated 8/2015: http://www.ir.fsu.edu/reports.
cfm?ID=deg_prog_inventory. Last year number of doctoral degrees awarded was reported for
the number of fields in which doctor’s degree can be awarded. This was in error.
26 Institutional-aggregated total 1810 for FY14–15 (this adds instructional plus research faculty
from FSU IPEDS data: 1417 (I) +393 (R) =1810 Total. This number does not include librarians
and the information was provided directly from FSU’s Office of Institutional Research. If this
method of counting was used last year, the figure would have been 1755 (1359(I) +386(R)=1755),
rather than 1494 as reported. The difference was probably because research faculty were not
counted and IPEDS data was not used.
Question Number Footnote
FLORIDA STATE cont.
7.b The institution-level, aggregated total includes a transfer to Law of 1.2 million.
8–10, 13 The institution-level, aggregated totals increased due to merit increases given to FSU staff in
FY14–15 (1.5% in Sept &performance based merit increases in November 2014).
10 The institution-level fringe benefits include: Social Security, Medicare, Retirement, Health
Insurance and Worker’s Compensation.
13.a Main library counts increased in part due to two filled vacant professional staff positions.
14.a Main and the Republic of Panama campus library used sampling for group presentations and
total participants in group presentations. Music and the Republic of Panama Libraries also used
sampling for their reference statistics. Sampling for Main’s figure for reference transactions is
based on taking the average of 2 largest months and smallest two months of both instructional
and reference data.
17 This figure for Main includes: Strozier Dirac Engineering Remote Storage Panama City Beach,
FL Goldstein Music Panama City, Panama and Ringling Libraries. The decrease in the Main
Library’s circulation figure follows a trend for General Collection loans over the past six years as
the addition of e-books coincides with the decline in print circulation.
18 These are the numbers from the consolidated usage reports in Intota Assessment, but ProQuest
was manually added (reports could not be formatted for upload). Regarding collection numbers,
they were supplied via a report of all e-books tracked in Intota, in order to combine and de-dup
with catalog records.
19 The institution-level, aggregated total increased due to stats that have doubled/tripled for many
FSU ProQuest (PQ) databases. PQ has reported that it is primarily an issue with what they call
“modular” databases, or databases that are searchable as one unit but that a library would buy
as separate units. They are looking at possible enhancements to their usage reports in 2015
to reduce the duplication caused by some of the more complex product bundles and modular
products and have said that they will have more information to share over the coming months.
FSU Libraries is in the process of working toward implementing a solution in order to normalize
and document change across time as COUNTER 4 has only been in effect a short while.
20 The institutional-level, aggregated total increased due to reporting number of Discovery Tool
Searches instead of Federated searches (Note: 146,270 =#of sessions).
21 The increase in ILL borrowing is most likely due to cancellations in journal packages for Main
(includes all branch libraries except law and medicine).
22 The decrease in ILL lending might be due to the fact that Main started charging $15 IFM this
past year.
23 Includes the Main library (Strozier), the Science library (Dirac) and the Engineering libraries
data only. Only Strozier and Dirac have turnstile (card swipe) data.
24 Interactive degrees awarded reports by college: http://www.ir.fsu.edu/studentinfo.
cfm?ID=degrees taken from the FSU Office of Institutional Research. Report URL: http://www.
ir.fsu.edu/degreesawarded/degreesawarded.htm.
25 Number taken from the degree program inventory dated 8/2015: http://www.ir.fsu.edu/reports.
cfm?ID=deg_prog_inventory. Last year number of doctoral degrees awarded was reported for
the number of fields in which doctor’s degree can be awarded. This was in error.
26 Institutional-aggregated total 1810 for FY14–15 (this adds instructional plus research faculty
from FSU IPEDS data: 1417 (I) +393 (R) =1810 Total. This number does not include librarians
and the information was provided directly from FSU’s Office of Institutional Research. If this
method of counting was used last year, the figure would have been 1755 (1359(I) +386(R)=1755),
rather than 1494 as reported. The difference was probably because research faculty were not
counted and IPEDS data was not used.
