ARL Statistics — Annual Summary
Fiscal Year 2012
Log In Fiscal Year:  Reporting Unit: 
  ARL Survey QuestionReportageVolumes
1 Volumes held June 30, 2012 -- (1a + 1b)4,064,478
1a Volumes held June 30, 20113,941,137
1b Volumes added during year -- (1bi - 1bii)123,341
1bi Volumes added during year -- Gross129,376
1bii Volumes withdrawn during the year6,035
2 Titles held June 30, 20123,869,491
3 Number of monographic volumes purchased24,631
4 Basis of volume countBibliographic
Other CollectionsSerials
5 Total number of serial titles currently received, including periodicals -- (5a + 5b)141,195
5a Number of serial titles currently purchased -- (5ai + 5aii)74,562
5ai Electronic serials purchased65,716
5aii Print (and other format) serials purchased8,846
5b Number of serial titles currently received but not purchased -- (5bi + 5bii + 5biii + 5biv)66,633
5bi Consortial - serials received but not purchased20,989
5bii Freely accessible - serials received but not purchased40,016
5biii Print (and other format) - serials received but not purchased3,037
5biv Government documents - serials received but not purchased2,591
6 Government documents are included in count of Current Serials?Yes
Other Library Materials
7 Microform units -- (7a + 7b)6,400,772
7a Microform units as of June 30, 20116,382,871
7b Microform units added this year17,901
8 Government documents not counted elsewhere -- (8a + 8b)1,259,163
8a Government documents not counted elsewhere - as of June 30, 20111,255,459
8b Government documents not counted elsewhere - added this year3,704
9 Computer files -- (9a + 9b)10,534
9a Computer files as of June 30, 201110,127
9b Computer files added this year407
10 Manuscripts and archives (linear ft.) -- (10a + 10b)9,518
10a Manuscripts and archives as of June 30, 20119,488
10b Manuscripts and archives added this year30
Audiovisual Materials
11 Cartographic -- (11a + 11b)868,811
11a Cartographic as of June 30, 2011867,520
11b Cartographic added this year1,291
12 Graphic -- (12a + 12b)263,088
12a Graphic as of June 30, 2011249,570
12b Graphic added this year13,518
13 Audio -- (13a + 13b)31,326
13a Audio as of June 30, 201130,773
13b Audio added this year553
14 Film and video -- (14a + 14b)50,414
14a Film and video as of June 30, 201148,782
14b Film and video added this year1,632
Expenditures
15 Are expenditure figures reported in Canadian dollars?No
Library Materials
16 Total library materials -- (16a + 16b + 16c + 16d)$9,603,876
16a Monographs$1,122,698
16b Serials, including periodicals$7,835,064
16c Other library materials$253,610
16d Miscellaneous$392,504
17 Contract Binding$50,898
Salaries and Wages
18 Total salaries and wages -- (18a + 18b + 18c)$12,416,942
18a Professional staff$5,370,892
18b Support staff$6,564,620
18c Student assistants$481,430
19 Fringe benefits are included in expenditures for salaries and wages3722933
Operating Expenditures
20 Other operating expenditures$1,955,168
21 Total library expenditures -- (16 + 17 + 18 + 20)$24,026,884
Electronic Materials Expenditures
22 One-time electronic resource purchases$439,806
23 Ongoing electronic resource purchases$6,392,156
24a Bibliographic utilities, networks, and consortia (from internal sources)$253,705
24b Bibliographic utilities, networks, and consortia (from external sources)$562,387
25 Computer hardware and software$132,160
26 Document Delivery / Interlibrary Loan$58,412
Personnel and Public ServicesPersonnel
27 Total Staff, FTE -- (27a + 27b + 27c)254
27a Professional staff, FTE69
27b Support staff, FTE144
27c Student assistants, FTE41
Staffed Service Points and Hours
28 Number of staffed library service points17
29 Number of weekly public service hours105
Instruction
30 Number of library presentations to groups977
30a Is the library presentations figure based on sampling?No
31 Number of total participants in group presentations23,423
31a Is the total participants in group presentations figure based on sampling?No
Reference
32 Number of reference transactions19,493
32a Is the reference transactions figure based on sampling?No
Circulation
33 Number of initial circulations (excluding reserves)331,976
34 Total circulations (initial and renewals, excluding reserves)699,440
Interlibrary Loans
35 Total number of filled requests provided to other libraries26,444
36 Total number of filled requests received from other libraries or providers20,820
Survey SupplementElectronic Books
101 Supplement: Number of electronic books held731,467
102 Supplement: Expenditures for electronic books$336,082
103 Supplement: Are expenditure figures reported in Canadian dollars?No
Use of Networked Electronic Resources and Services
104 Supplement: Number of virtual reference transactions7,326
105 Supplement: Does your library offer federated searching across networked electronic resources?Yes
106 Supplement: Number of sessions (logins) to databases or services918,091
106a Supplement: Number of resources for which you are reporting - Logins3
107 Supplement: Number of searches (queries) in databases or services2,566,935
107a Supplement: Number of resources for which you are reporting - Queries3
108 Supplement: Number of successful full-text article requests2,577,085
108a Supplement: Number of resources for which you are reporting - Article Requests8
109a Supplement: Number of virtual visits to library's website--
109b Supplement: Number of virtual visits to library's catalog--
109c Supplement: Excludes virtual visits from inside the library?--
Library Digitization Activities
110a Supplement: Number of Collections (library digital collections)549
110b Supplement: Size (in gigabytes) (library digital collections)13,792
110c Supplement: Number of Items (library digital collections)336,011
111a Supplement: Number of times items accessed (use of library digital collections)24,412,209
111b Supplement: Number of queries conducted (use of library digital collections)2,023,067
112a Supplement: Direct cost of personnel (digital collections construction and management)$531,881
112b Supplement: Direct cost of equipment, software or contracted services (digital collections construction and management)--
113 Supplement: Volumes Held Collectively--