The complete data set from ACRL's comprehensive statistics-gathering project encompassing all academic libraries. Data from 1,175 academic libraries in all Carnegie classifications is included.
The core set of data consists of five major categories:
- Collections: which includes monographic volumes, serials and microforms, etc.;
- Expenditures: which includes library materials, electronic serials, computer
hardware and software, salaries and wages, etc.;
- Personnel and Public Services: which includes size of staff, reference transactions, circulations, ILL, etc,;
- Ph.D.s granted, Faculty and Enrollment Statistics: which includes Ph.D.s granted, number of faculty, undergraduate and
graduate enrollment, etc., and
- Supplementary Statistics: which includes expenditures for computer files, electronic serials, bibliographic utilities,
network, and consortia.
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