Provides nine articles: research on libraries and librarianship, 1997; changing faces of library education (ALA-accredited graduate program title changes); number of libraries in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico; highlights of NCES surveys; library acquisition expenditures; price indexes for public and academic libraries; state rankings of selected…

Includes seven articles that discuss research on libraries; numbers of libraries in the United States and Canada; library acquisition expenditures; price indexes for academic and school libraries; expenditures in school library media centers; state rankings of public library data; and library building construction. (LRW)

Each of nine issues of this newsletter focuses on one topic. The topics covered are: (1) Librarian Salaries at Colorado Community Colleges; (2) Criteria for Allocating the Library Materials Budget; (3) School Library Media Centers in Colorado 1994; (4) Circulation Statistics: What's Included & What's Excluded?; (5) U.S. Population Unserved…

Tabular data are presented on 107 university and 12 non-university research libraries' holdings and operating expenditures, providing information by library rank on volumes in library; volumes added; current serials; total staff; and total expenditures. A graph depicts percentages for operating expenditures. (DB)

Data on 106 university and 12 nonuniversity research libraries include rankings based on a national index, the number of volumes held, volumes added during the year, current serials, total staff, and total expenditures. Most data are for main campuses only. (MSE)

Data on the holdings of university and other research libraries include library ranking, volumes held and added, current serials holdings, and spending for materials and salaries. (MSE)

Replacing a January 1980 publication of the same title, this collection of cost tables and other documentation from library materials cost studies conducted by members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) or by library vendors contains excerpts from: (1) local cost studies conducted at Colorado State University, Indiana University, Iowa…

Tables present 1993-94 data on the top 108 university and 11 nonuniversity research libraries in the United States and Canada, including numbers of volumes in the library, volumes added, number of current serials, permanent staff, and total dollar expenditures. A pie graph also illustrates operating expenditure proportions. (MSE)

This cumulation provides access to historical statistics of research libraries in the United States and Canada, not including non-university members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). The publication has been produced from a computerized data file and incorporates corrections to the annual editions of ARL statistics. An explanatory…

This paper compiles the 1977 to 1978 academic library statistics and rank order tables from 105 members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) in the areas of collections, interlibrary loans, expenditures, personnel, microform holdings, and university enrollments and doctorate information. Review of the ARL statistics for 1978 indicates…

This collection of documentation from library materials cost studies conducted by members of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member libraries in the United States and Canada contains 11 documents divided into the following sections: (1) methodologies and data collection worksheets from the University of California at Berkeley, the…

This paper describes the use of a microcomputer model program to predict library collection growth at Cornell University, particularly in Olin Library, which is Cornell's central research facility. The possible effects of increased online information retrieval and microform or videodisc usage on library storage needs are also briefly discussed. A…