Full Description
The complete data set from ACRL's comprehensive statistics-gathering project encompassing all academic libraries in one easy-to-use volume. Includes institutions in Carnegie classifications Associate of Arts degree granting, Master's Colleges and Universities, Baccalaureate Colleges, and Research/Doctoral-granting Institutions. Data from 1,499 academic libraries in all Carnegie classifications is included. The core set of data consists of four major categories: * Collections: which includes titles held, volumes, and electronic books;* Expenditures: which includes library materials (one-time purchases and ongoing purchases), salaries and wages, etc.;* Personnel and Public Services: which includes size of staff, information service transactions, circulations, ILL, gate count, hours;* Collection trends: budgets, shifts in collection formats, types of materials collected, OER initiatives, institutional repositories, digitization initiatives, and shared print collections.* Purchase includes a complimentary subscription to ACRL Metrics (a $241 value) for one year.ACRL Metrics is an on-line service providing access to ACRL and NCES academic library statistics (2000 to present) as well as a subset of IPEDS data specific to academic libraries.
