ARL Preservation Statistics Statistics Survey, 2007/2008 (All Duke Libraries)
Administration:
1) Does the library have a preservation administrator?
Yes Main Library
Yes Law Library
No Health Science Library
2) If yes, what percentage of the administrator's total job assignment is
dedicated to preservation activities and preservation program
management?
100% Main Library
25% Law Library
3) If yes, what is the job title of the person to whom the preservation
administrator reports?
Associate University Librarian for Collections Services & Director of the Rare
Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
4) If the library has a preservation administrator who supervises staff, how
how many staff are in the preservation unit (including the preservation
administrator)? 12.30
a) Professional Staff FTE 5.45
b) Support Staff FTE 5.50
c) Student Assistants FTE 1.35
5) How many staff are engaged in preservation activities library-wide
(including staff reported in item 4 above)? 13.01
a) Professional Staff FTE 5.48
b) Support Staff FTE 6.18
c) Student Assistants FTE 1.35
Expenditures
6) Expenditures reported in Canadian dollars?
No Main Library
No Law Library
No Health Science Library
7) Salaries and wages for staff engaged in preservation activities (as
reported in line 5 above) $430,937
a) Professional Staff $202,564
b) Support Staff $212,848
c) Student Assistants $15,525
8) Contract expenditures $220,073
a) Contract Conservation $13,038
b) Contract commercial binding (related to line 16 on the 2004-2005 ARL
Statistics questionnaire; see instructions) $197,108
c) Contract preservation photocopying $0
d) Contract preservation microfilming $5,529
e) Other contract expenditures $4,398
9) Preservation supplies $74,024
10) Preservation equipment $203
11) Total library expenditures $790,935
12) Total preservation expenditures that came from external sources $445
Treatment and Reformatting
Conservation Treatment
13) Number of volumes/pamphlets given conservation treatment 4,400
a) Volumes/pamphlets given Level 1 treatment 3,531
b) Volumes/pamphlets given Level 2 treatment 804
c) Volumes/pamphlets given Level 3 treatment 65
14) Number of unbound sheets given conservation treatment 593
15) Number of bound volumes/pamphlets mass deacidified 0
16) Number of linear feet of unbound papers mass deacidified 0
17) Number of photographs and non-paper items given conservation
treatment (e.g., audio tapes, motion picture film) 16
18) Number of custom-fitted protective enclosures constructed 6,374
Commercial Binding
19) Number of volumes commercially bound 25,882
Preservation Reformatting
20) Number of bound volumes/pamphlets reformatted in their entirety
a) Photocopied 15
b) Microfilmed 0
c) Digitized 15
21) Number of single unbound sheets reformatted (e.g., one side of one
manuscript page, one map)
a) Photocopied 0
b) Microfilmed 0
c) Digitized 197
22) Number of photographs and non-paper items reformatted (e.g., audio
tapes, motion picture film)
a) By analog means 0
b) By digital means 11,182