Has anyone else noticed that the annual number of items circulated per
enrolled student in ARL libraries is down by 25% since 1991?  Even more
alarming is the drop in the average number of reference transactions:
from 7.2 per student in 1991 to 4 per student in 2004, for
a decline of almost 50%.

This has probably been commented upon somewhere, and I just missed it.
You can see the raw numbers here:
http://www.arl.org/stats/pubpdf/arlstat04.pdf.

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Rick Anderson
Dir. of Resource Acquisition
University of Nevada, Reno Libraries
(775) 784-6500 x273
rickand@unr.edu