Research library trends: ARL statistics

Journal of Academic Librarianship

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 427-436

  Kyrillidou, Martha ^a  

^a 21 Dupont C   (United States)

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EID: 0009935982     PISSN: 00991333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0099-1333(00)00177-4     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Mary Jo Lynch describes a variety of new and old efforts in library data collection in a recent article entitled, "Academic Library Statistics: New Players Change the Scene" (http://www.ala.org/alaorg/ors/alsnewplayers.html) (accessed September 1, 2000).
2. ARL Statistics 1998-99 is the latest in this series of annual publications.
3. Kendon Stubbs, "Apples and Oranges and ARL Statistics," Journal of Academic Librarianship 14 (September 1988): 231-235.
4. In 1997, ARL cosponsored a conference highlighting the problems facing the specialized scholarly monograph. See http://www.arl.org/scomm/epub/program.html (accessed September 1, 2000).
5. Mark J. McCabe, "The Impact of Publisher Mergers on Journal Prices: An Update," ARL: A Bimonthly Report on Research Library Issues and Actions from ARL, CNI, and SPARC, no. 207 (Dec. 1999): 4; also available at (http://www.arl.org/newsltr/207/jrnlprices.html).
6. Create Change (http://www.arl.org/create/) (accessed September 1, 2000).
7. "Principles for Emerging Systems of Scholarly Publishing," ARL: A Bimonthly Report on Research Library Issues and Actions from ARL, CNI, and SPARC, no. 210 (June 2000): 1; also available at (http://www.arl.org/newsltr/210/).
8. The Keystone Principles (http://www.arl.org/newsltr/207/keystone.html) (accessed September 1, 2000).
9. Doug Brown, "Library: Checking Out in the Digital Era" ZD Net Inter@ctive Week (June 26, 2000) (http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2593193,00.html) (accessed September 1, 2000).
10. Mary E. Jackson, "Measuring the Performance of Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery Services," ARL: A Bimonthly Newsletter of Research Library Issues and Actions (December 1997): 2; also available at (http://www.arl.org/newsltr/195/illdds.html).
11. According to Dilys E. Morris, Collin B. Hobert, Lori Osmus & Gregory Wook, "Cataloging Staff Costs Revisited," Library Resources and Technical Services, 44 (2000): 70-83. In 1997/98, the average cost of cataloging a title at Iowa state was $16.25. This cost covers all material formats and all levels of cataloging and recataloging, including PromptCat titles. Just seven years earlier, the cost was $20.83 (or $24.95 in constant dollars), representing a 22% drop, or 34% drop when adjusted for inflation. Serials cataloging at $59.33 per title (including recataloging) is five times more expensive than monographs cataloging ($12.11 per title).
12. Jackson, "Measuring the Performance ... ," p. 2.
13. Martha Kyrillidou, "New Collections, New Marketplace Relations," Resource Sharing and Information Networks 14 (1999): 73-74.
14. California Digital Library (http://www.cdlib.org/); Georgia's Galileo (http://www.galileo.peachnet.edu/); Illinet Online (http://ilcso.aiss.uiuc.edu/Web/Services/ILLINET_Online/ILLINET_Online.html); OhioLINK: (http://www.ohiolink.edu/); TexShare: (http://www.texshare.edu/); and VIVA: (http://www.viva.lib.va.us/).
15. See (http://NTX2.cso.uiuc.edu/cic/index.html).
16. See (http://www.library.yale.edu/consortia/).
17. See (http://www.internet2.edu).
18. See (http://www.ngi.gov).
19. The ARL Supplementary Statistics that tracks expenditures for electronic resources shows that, in 1992-93, libraries spent on average 3.6% of their materials budget for electronic resources; the latest 1998-99 report shows that libraries spent 10.5%, This is an average expenditure for electronic resources including computer files, monographic acquisitions, and serials expenditures of $742,598 for the 105 ARL university libraries reporting data, or a total of $77,972,773. See (http://www.arl.org/stats/arlstat/#sup) (accessed September 1, 2000).
20. ARL New Measures Initiative Homepage (http://www.arl.org/stats/newmeas/newmeas.html).
21. Steve Coffman, "Building Earth's Largest Library: Driving into the Future," Searcher 7 (March 1999); also available at (http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/mar99/coffman.htm).
22. William Arms, Digital Libraries (Cambridge, MA: MIT, 1999), p. 56.
23. ARL Digital Initiatives Database (http://www.arl.org/did/) (accessed September 1, 2000).
24. Jerry D. Campbell, "The Case for Creating a Scholar's Portal on the Web: a White Paper" ARL: A Bimonthly Report on Research Library Issues and Actions from ARL, CNI, and SPARC, no. 211 (Aug. 2000): 1-3; also available at (http://www.arl.org/newsltr/211/portal.html).