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Medical Center Library, 2008/2009 ARL Statistics

Volumes

        1) Volumes held June 30, 2009      247,664

            a)  Volumes held June 30, 2008      300,305

            b)  Volumes added during year     -52,641

                    i)  Volumes added during year -- Gross      1,955

                    ii)  Volumes withdrawn during the year     54,596

        2)  Number of monographic volumes purchased      357

        3)  Basis of volume count is:         Bibliographic

Other Collections

    Serials

        4)  Total number of current serial titles currently received, including periodicals      5,108

            a)  Number of serial titles currently purchased      1,015

                   i) Electronic serials purchased      928

                   ii) Print (and other format) serials      87

            b)  Number of serials titles currently received but not purchased        4,093

                   i) Consortial serials received but not purchased      3,281

                   ii) Electronic serials received but not purchased that are freely accessible      808

                   iii) Print (and other format) serials received but not purchased        4

                   iv) Government document serials received but not purchased      0           

        5)  Government documents are included in count of Current Serials      no
                               
    Other Library Materials

        6)  Microform units        193

        7)  Government documents not counted elsewhere        0

        8)  Computer files      30,492

        9)  Manuscripts and archives (linear ft)        11,911

    Audiovisual Materials

        10)  Cartographic        93

        11)  Graphic        555,689            

        12)  Audio      1,260

        13)  Film and video      2,965

Expenditures

        14)  Are the below figures in Canadian dollars?      no

    Library Materials

        15)  Total library materials     $1,691,910

            a)  Monographs      $54,106

            b)  Serials, including periodicals        $1,413,709

            c)  Other library materials        $36,270

            d)  Miscellaneous        $187,825

        16)  Contract Binding        $3,778

    Salaries and Wages

        17)  Total salaries and wages       $1,895,332

            a)  Professional staff      $1,209,935

            b)  Support staff      $685,397

            c)  Student assistants  $0

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

        19)  Other operating expenditures          $435,512

        20)  Total operating expenditures      $4,026,532

Electronic Materials Expenditures

        21) One-time electronic resource purchases        ua

        22) Ongoing electronic resource purchases      $1,216,650

        23)  Bibliographic utilities, networks, and consortia

            a)  From internal library sources        $81,144

            b)  From external sources        $0

        24)  Computer hardware and software        $106,550

        25)  Document delivery / Interlibrary loan        $3,763

Personnel

        26)  Total FTE Staff        38

            a)  Professional staff, FTE        23

            b)  Support staff, FTE        15

            c)  Student assistants, FTE        0

Staffed Service Points and Hours

        27)  Number of library service points      3

        28)  Number of weekly public service hours      78
                           
Instruction

        29)  Number of library presentations to groups      248

            a)  Figure based on sampling?        no

        30)  Number of total participants in group presentations        3,536

            a)  Figure based on sampling?      no
   
Reference

        31)  Number of reference transactions        8,634

            a)  Figure based on sampling?      no

Circulation

        32)  Number of initial circulations (excluding reserves)        15,602

        33)  Total circulations (initial and renewals, excluding reserves)        21,673

Interlibrary Loans

        34)  Total number of filled requests for materials provided to other libraries        10,722

        35)  Total number of filled requests for materials received from other libraries or providers        2,214

Footnotes

1. Decrease due the Medical Center Library withdrawing over 50,000 volumes from their collection.

24. Includes line items not previously considered part of computer hardware/software.

25. Different Solinet charges from previous year.

28. The Medical Center Library is no longer open on Saturdays.

29.-31. Consultations now counted as reference transactions.

 

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