91 ARL Statistics 2014–2015
Question Number Footnote
LOUISIANA STATE
All figures are as of 06/30/2015.
Library branches included: Special Collections, Veterinary Medicine Library, and the LSU Law
Library.
1–2 The Main Library deaccessioned several titles in FY2015, thus leaving a minimal percentage
change in the total number of titles.
3 The basis of count is a combination of physical and bibliographic.
7 The Libraries used one-time funds to sustain our material collection. This money came from
our indirect cost and salary savings accounts.
8 Salary expenditures increased with the hiring of a new dean, with which new positions were
created and filled within the administrative suite. Equity raises were provided to several support
and professional personnel.
8.a, 13.a This number includes librarians in faculty positions and salaried personnel $50k/annum.
8.b, 13.b This number includes Civil Service, Library Assistants, Professional/unclassified, and FTE
Graduate Assistants.
11 Effective July 01, 2015, fringe benefit rates for regular salaried positions is 42%, for Graduate
Assistants 3%.
12 This is the LSU portion of the monies given by the BoR to the LOUIS Consortium.
16 The main reason this number is different is the implementation of a new system to track
reference transactions daily and to use the READ Scale as a basis for sorting and subtracting
location-type questions.
18 This number is derived from COUNTER data.
19–20 Last year (2013–2014) the COUNTER Database 1 report was used to derive the figure reported.
This year the COUNTER Platform 1 report was used to derive the figure reported. These are
very different reports and thus the data figures reported are vastly different. These numbers will
continue to be problematic until a better standard is adopted.
LOUISVILLE
All figures are as of 06/30/2015.
Library branches included: Archives &Special Collections, Art, Ekstrom (Main), Law, Music.
Library branches NOT included: Health Sciences.
10 Life Insurance, Health Insurance, Disability, Retirement, Tuition Remission, Flexible Spending
Accounts.
12 This information is no longer provided to us by the Kentucky Virtual Library Network.
20 We no longer have a federated search tool.
MCGILL
All figures are as of 04/30/3015.
Library branches included: Birks Reading Room (religious studies), Education Curriculum
Resources Centre, Islamic Studies, Life Sciences, Osler (history and social sciences of medicine),
Humanities and Social Sciences (includes management and education), Blackader-Lauterman
(art and architecture), Marvin Duchow Music, Nahum Gelber Law, Rare Books and Special
Collections, McGill University Archives, Schulich Library of Science and Engineering, and the
Macdonald Campus.
6–9, 10, 12 Expenditures as reported in Canadian dollars — Collections Expenditures: (7a) $4,003,514 (7b)
$14,847,835 (7c) $0 (7) $18,851,349 Salary Expenditures: (8a) $5,733,087 (8b) $5,653,894 (8c)
$334,295 (8) $11,721,276 (10) $1,931,647 Overall Expenditures: (7) $18,851,349 (8) $11,721,276
(9) $1,605,226 (6) $32,177,851 (12) NA/UA. NOTE: Total Salaries and Wages (Q8) EXCLUDES
Fringe Benefits Expenditures (Q10).
Question Number Footnote
LOUISIANA STATE
All figures are as of 06/30/2015.
Library branches included: Special Collections, Veterinary Medicine Library, and the LSU Law
Library.
1–2 The Main Library deaccessioned several titles in FY2015, thus leaving a minimal percentage
change in the total number of titles.
3 The basis of count is a combination of physical and bibliographic.
7 The Libraries used one-time funds to sustain our material collection. This money came from
our indirect cost and salary savings accounts.
8 Salary expenditures increased with the hiring of a new dean, with which new positions were
created and filled within the administrative suite. Equity raises were provided to several support
and professional personnel.
8.a, 13.a This number includes librarians in faculty positions and salaried personnel $50k/annum.
8.b, 13.b This number includes Civil Service, Library Assistants, Professional/unclassified, and FTE
Graduate Assistants.
11 Effective July 01, 2015, fringe benefit rates for regular salaried positions is 42%, for Graduate
Assistants 3%.
12 This is the LSU portion of the monies given by the BoR to the LOUIS Consortium.
16 The main reason this number is different is the implementation of a new system to track
reference transactions daily and to use the READ Scale as a basis for sorting and subtracting
location-type questions.
18 This number is derived from COUNTER data.
19–20 Last year (2013–2014) the COUNTER Database 1 report was used to derive the figure reported.
This year the COUNTER Platform 1 report was used to derive the figure reported. These are
very different reports and thus the data figures reported are vastly different. These numbers will
continue to be problematic until a better standard is adopted.
LOUISVILLE
All figures are as of 06/30/2015.
Library branches included: Archives &Special Collections, Art, Ekstrom (Main), Law, Music.
Library branches NOT included: Health Sciences.
10 Life Insurance, Health Insurance, Disability, Retirement, Tuition Remission, Flexible Spending
Accounts.
12 This information is no longer provided to us by the Kentucky Virtual Library Network.
20 We no longer have a federated search tool.
MCGILL
All figures are as of 04/30/3015.
Library branches included: Birks Reading Room (religious studies), Education Curriculum
Resources Centre, Islamic Studies, Life Sciences, Osler (history and social sciences of medicine),
Humanities and Social Sciences (includes management and education), Blackader-Lauterman
(art and architecture), Marvin Duchow Music, Nahum Gelber Law, Rare Books and Special
Collections, McGill University Archives, Schulich Library of Science and Engineering, and the
Macdonald Campus.
6–9, 10, 12 Expenditures as reported in Canadian dollars — Collections Expenditures: (7a) $4,003,514 (7b)
$14,847,835 (7c) $0 (7) $18,851,349 Salary Expenditures: (8a) $5,733,087 (8b) $5,653,894 (8c)
$334,295 (8) $11,721,276 (10) $1,931,647 Overall Expenditures: (7) $18,851,349 (8) $11,721,276
(9) $1,605,226 (6) $32,177,851 (12) NA/UA. NOTE: Total Salaries and Wages (Q8) EXCLUDES
Fringe Benefits Expenditures (Q10).
