ARL Analysis – Briefing #4.aSummary Info Pat Burns, Interim Dean

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ARL Briefing #4.a

Outline

•ARL•Types of Analyses•CSU Peer Institutions’ Profiles•Analyses using ARL data

▫Collections & Service▫Expenditures

•Summary tables below in this Briefing 4.a•Detailed graphs in Briefing 4.b

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Abbreviations & Definitions

•FTE – Full time equivalent•Lib – Library •Students – total student FTE, grad +

undergrad •TT – Tenure track

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ARL

•Member organization of about 110 premier research libraries

•Over 100 years old•Maintains a robust and consistent

longitudinal database of Library data•Research libraries have a relatively

unique mission for collections and preservation

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ARL Data

•Are annual•Are sometimes missing – shows as zero•Are not as ‘clean’ as one would like

▫But, overall, are very good and very consistent

•All ‘people’ are defined in terms of Full-Time Equivalent (FTE), not ‘heads’

•Normalization is per FTE Tenure Track Faculty

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Types of Analyses•Who – our peer institutions (from Fact Book)•What

▫Institutional profiles▫Library: collections, expenditures

•How▫Absolute – how does our Library compare with

other research libraries in an absolute sense▫Normalized– how does our Library compare

with other research libraries in a relative sense•Why – to inform decision making

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Peers: ARL Rank in 2007 (Latest)• CALIFORNIA, DAVIS 64• COLORADO 70• COLORADO STATE 103• ILLINOIS, URBANA 13• IOWA STATE 81• MICHIGAN STATE 40

• N. CAROLINA STATE 41• OHIO STATE 27• OKLAHOMA STATE 89• PURDUE 46• TEXAS A&M 26• WASHINGTON STATE 99

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Institutional Profiles

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  CSU RankInstitutional Data Absolute NormalizedTotal FTE TT Faculty 12 -PHD Fields 11 3PHDs Awarded 10 8FTE Grad Students 11 8FTE Total Students 11 12

Total Budget 11 7

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Collections

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  CSU RankCollections Absolute NormalizedVolumes 12 5Serials 12 6ILL Lends 3 1ILL Borrows 3 1Queries 6 4

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Rank = 6th

Library Expenditures

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  CSU RankLib. Expenditures Absolute NormalizedBooks 11 3Serials 12 5Total Materials 12 4Lib. Faculty Salaries 12 5Lib. Staff Salaries 12 8Lib. Student Salaries 9 5Lib. Total Salaries 12 6Total Lib. Expenses 12 4