Publication Date
In 2025 | 0 |
Since 2024 | 0 |
Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 0 |
Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 2 |
Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 29 |
Descriptor
Academic Libraries | 77 |
Statistical Data | 77 |
Higher Education | 34 |
Library Services | 29 |
Tables (Data) | 24 |
Library Personnel | 19 |
Research Libraries | 17 |
Library Collections | 16 |
Library Expenditures | 16 |
Library Materials | 16 |
Expenditures | 13 |
More ▼ |
Source
Author
Publication Type
Education Level
Higher Education | 27 |
Postsecondary Education | 21 |
Adult Education | 1 |
Two Year Colleges | 1 |
Location
Canada | 10 |
United States | 7 |
New York | 4 |
North Carolina | 4 |
Colorado | 3 |
Alabama | 2 |
California | 2 |
North Dakota | 2 |
Pennsylvania | 2 |
Australia | 1 |
Connecticut | 1 |
More ▼ |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Assessments and Surveys
What Works Clearinghouse Rating
Wilkin, John P. – College & Research Libraries, 2017
The 1961 Copyright Office study on renewals, authored by Barbara Ringer, has cast an outsized influence on discussions of the U.S. 1923-1963 public domain. As more concrete data emerge from initiatives such as the large-scale determination process in the Copyright Review Management System (CRMS) project, questions are raised about the reliability…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Copyrights, Misconceptions, Test Reliability
Ginder, Scott A.; Kelly-Reid, Janice E.; Mann, Farrah B. – National Center for Education Statistics, 2017
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) collects institution-level data from postsecondary institutions in the United States (50 states and the District of Columbia) and other U.S. jurisdictions (see appendix A for a list of other U.S. jurisdictions). This "First Look" presents findings from the provisional data of the…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Enrollment Rate, Enrollment Trends, Employees
Buller, Ryan F. – Journal of Access Services, 2014
Generating, collecting, and analyzing building usage statistics can greatly increase the ability of an access services unit to meet the changing dynamic of patron needs in an academic library. By analyzing three different data points, the Access Services Unit in Malpass Library at Western Illinois University was able to determine the most…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Development, Library Research, Student Employment
Blecic, Deborah D.; Wiberley, Stephen E., Jr.; Fiscella, Joan B.; Bahnmaier-Blaszczak, Sara; Lowery, Rebecca – College & Research Libraries, 2013
This paper presents methods to develop metrics that compare Big Deal journal packages and the journals within those packages. Deal-level metrics guide selection of a Big Deal for termination. Journal-level metrics guide selection of individual subscriptions from journals previously provided by a terminated deal. The paper argues that, while the…
Descriptors: Periodicals, Library Services, Library Materials, Comparative Analysis
Welker, Josh – Computers in Libraries, 2012
Any librarian who has managed electronic resources has experienced the--for want of words--"joy" of gathering and analyzing usage statistics. Such statistics are important for evaluating the effectiveness of resources and for making important budgeting decisions. Unfortunately, the data are usually tedious to collect, inconsistently organized, of…
Descriptors: Library Services, Databases, Academic Libraries, Electronic Libraries
Kyrillidou, Martha, Comp.; Morris, Shaneka, Comp. – Association of Research Libraries, 2011
This document presents results of the 2008-2009 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Law Library Statistics Questionnaire. Out of 114 ARL university libraries, 72 responded to this survey. Law libraries reported median values of 355,922 volumes held and 7,274 gross volumes added. Also, these libraries employed the full-time equivalent of 2,057…
Descriptors: Law Libraries, Academic Libraries, Library Materials, Expenditures
Brown, Christopher C. – College & Research Libraries, 2011
As federal government information is increasingly migrating to online formats, libraries are providing links to this content via URLs or persistent URLs (PURLs) in their online public access catalogs (OPACs). Clickthrough statistics that accumulated as users visited links to online content in the University of Denver's library OPAC were gathered…
Descriptors: Government Publications, Statistical Analysis, Statistical Distributions, Statistical Data
Herrera, Gail – College & Research Libraries, 2011
The University of Mississippi Library created a profile to provide linking from Google Scholar (GS) to library resources in 2005. Although Google Scholar does not provide usage statistics for institutions, use of Google Scholar is clearly evident in looking at library link resolver logs. The purpose of this project is to examine users of Google…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Library Services, Library Networks
Flatley, Robert; Jensen, Robert Bruce – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2012
Academic libraries have traditionally collected reference statistics using hash marks on paper. Although efficient and simple, this method is not an effective way to capture the complexity of reference transactions. Several electronic tools are now available to assist libraries with collecting often elusive reference data--among them homegrown…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Program Implementation, Reference Services, Library Research
Phan, Tai; Hardesty, Laura; Hug, Jamie; Sheckells, Cindy – National Center for Education Statistics, 2011
This report presents tabulations for the 2010 Academic Libraries Survey (ALS) conducted by the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), within the Institute of Education Sciences. The 2010 ALS population included postsecondary institutions with all of the following: total library expenditures that exceed…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Surveys, Library Services, Expenditures
Carter, Sunshine; Ambrosi, Thomas – Computers in Libraries, 2011
The University of Minnesota-Duluth is the second largest campus in the University of Minnesota system. The UMD library, which serves more than 11,000 students and 500 faculty members, is primarily an undergraduate library. The reference team consists of eight librarians, including author Sunshine Carter, reference and electronics resources…
Descriptors: Reference Services, Library Automation, Library Development, Academic Libraries
Nixon, Judith M. – College & Research Libraries, 2010
The purpose of this article is to describe the scope and depth of the historic corporate annual report collections in twelve academic/research libraries in North America. For many decades, a few major academic business libraries have been collecting and preserving corporate Annual Reports (ARS), the reports sent to shareholders documenting the…
Descriptors: Annual Reports, Archives, Library Materials, Corporations
Stewart, Christopher – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2012
This report is the second in a two-part analysis of ACRL"Metrics", an online service that provides access to a range of quantitative data for academic libraries. In this analysis, ACRL"Metrics"' inclusion of data from the National Center for Educational Statistics' Academic Libraries Survey and the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System is…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Internet, Information Sources, Statistical Data
Bray, Ira, Ed. – California State Library, 2009
Each year the State Library sends annual report forms to California's public, academic, special, state agency, and county law libraries. Statistical data from those reports are tabulated in this publication, with directory listings published in the companion volume, "California Library Directory." For this fiscal year, 389 libraries of…
Descriptors: Law Libraries, Government Libraries, School Libraries, Public Libraries
Leykam, Andrew – Journal of Access Services, 2009
The intent of this paper is to explore the potential of utilizing interlibrary loan (ILL) data relating to lending denials to improve ILL services while highlighting institutional policies that have a negative impact on lending fulfillment rates. Reasons for denial as well as the types of requests being denied are reviewed. In addition, the author…
Descriptors: Library Services, Incidence, Library Materials, Library Networks