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Law School Library, 2008/2009 ARL Statistics

  Volumes

        1) Volumes held June 30, 2009      483,266

            a)  Volumes held June 30, 2008      475,553

            b)  Volumes added during year     7,713

                    i)  Volumes added during year -- Gross      10,868

                    ii)  Volumes withdrawn during the year     3,155

        2)  Number of monographic volumes purchased      2,841

        3)  Basis of volume count is:       Physical
                          

Other Collections

    Serials

        4)  Total number of current serial titles currently received, including periodicals      5,201

            a)  Number of serial titles currently purchased      4,965

                   i) Electronic serials purchased      1,888

                   ii) Print (and other format) serials      3,077

            b)  Number of serials titles currently received but not purchased        236

                 i) Consortial serials received but not purchased      0

                   ii) Electronic serials received but not purchased that are freely accessible     48

                   iii) Print (and other format) serials received but not purchased        188             

                   iv) Government document serials      na               

        5)  Government documents are included in count of Current Serials      yes
                            
    Other Library Materials

        6)  Microform units        1,209,858

        7)  Government documents not counted elsewhere        0

        8)  Computer files      218

        9)  Manuscripts and archives (linear ft)        86

    Audiovisual Materials

        10)  Cartographic        0

        11)  Graphic        0           

        12)  Audio      274

        13)  Film and video      423

Expenditures

        14)  Are the below figures in Canadian dollars?      no

    Library Materials

        15)  Total library materials     $1,898,123

            a)  Monographs      $270,804

            b)  Serials, including periodicals        $1,453,131

            c)  Other library materials        $80,933

            d)  Miscellaneous        $93,255

        16)  Contract Binding        $19,795

    Salaries and Wages

        17)  Total salaries and wages       $1,503,482

            a)  Professional staff      $1,065,833

            b)  Support staff      $401,155

            c)  Student assistants  $36,494

        18)  Fringe benefits are included in expenditures for salaries and wages        no

        19)  Other operating expenditures          $97,308

        20)  Total operating expenditures      $3,518,708

Electronic Materials Expenditures

        21) One-time electronic resource purchases        $89,000

        22) Ongoing electronic resource purchases      $218,579

        23)  Bibliographic utilities, networks, and consortia

            a)  From internal library sources        $15,525

            b)  From external sources        $0

        24)  Computer hardware and software        $26,334

        25)  Document delivery / Interlibrary loan        $7,146

Personnel

        26)  Total FTE Staff        29

            a)  Professional staff, FTE        13

            b)  Support staff, FTE        10

            c)  Student assistants, FTE        6

Staffed Service Points and Hours

        27)  Number of library service points      3

        28)  Number of weekly public service hours      104
                           
Instruction

        29)  Number of library presentations to groups      144

            a)  Figure based on sampling?        no

        30)  Number of total participants in group presentations        913

            a)  Figure based on sampling?      no
   
Reference

        31)  Number of reference transactions        4,315

            a)  Figure based on sampling?      yes

Circulation

        32)  Number of initial circulations (excluding reserves)        21,450

        33)  Total circulations (initial and renewals, excluding reserves)        34,142

Interlibrary Loans

        34)  Total number of filled requests for materials provided to other libraries        654

        35)  Total number of filled requests for materials received from other libraries or providers        1,490

Footnotes

1. Number of volumes shows a significant increase from last year , because it is the first time that e-books have been included in the count. The total number of e-books is 25,991.  E-book products are: Legal Classics Library (Hein), Making of Modern Law (Gale), vLex, World Trials Library (Hein) and other e-books through Hein.

4. This is the first year that our serial count is based completely on bibliographic and electronic funding.

23.a. With the return to the renovated library space, two payments were made to Solinet/Lyrasis to accommodate purchases that were not made during the renovation.

32.-33. With the return to the renovated library space, circulation increased as the collection was returned to the library.

 

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