Date: Fri, 30 Sep 1994 16:16:05 -0400
From: Martha Kyrillidou <martha@A.CNI.ORG>
Subject: ARL Statistics 1992-93

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directly:

        Martha Kyrillidou
        Program Officer for Statistics and Measurement
        Association of Research Libraries
        21 Dupont Circle, Washington D.C. 20036
                Tel. (202) 296-2296
                FAX  (202) 872-0884
                e-mail:  martha@cni.org
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Subject:  Electronic Publication of ARL Statistics

                          ARL STATISTICS, 1992-93,
                                   ON
                              THE INTERNET

                           http://arl.cni.org/
                  http://www.lib.virginia.edu/arlstats/

          The first electronic publication of the ARL statistics
    on the World Wide Web has been prepared by Paul Bergen, John
    Price-Wilkin, and Kendon Stubbs at the University of
    Virginia and is available at the above URL.

    Reports on 48 data categories for the 108 university and 11
    non-university members of ARL are accompanied with fully documented
    descriptions of the 1992-93 data files.  Also, selected graphs
    from the 1993 printed ARL statistics and maps based on the
    1992 ARL statistics are included in the electronic publication.

         Future plans for the electronic publication of the ARL
    statistics include the development of an interface for interactive data
    analysis that will permit users to define their own comparative ratios,
    and generate reports for their institutions and their peer groups.
    Stay tuned ...

         The 1992-93 data files are also available through both gopher and
    ftp at the following places:

       gopher to arl.cni.org, select Statistics

       gopher to gopher.virginia.edu, select Library Services,
         then Social Science Data Center, then
         ARL Statistics.

       ftp to ftp.lib.virginia.edu, login as anonymous,
         then cd to pub/socsci/arlstats/1993

Research library statistics were collected for the first time in 1907-08 by
Gerould.  The publication RESEARCH LIBRARY STATISTICS 1907-08 THROUGH
1987-88 includes the data files and extensive documentation about this
important historical library data series.  A special offer for a
limited number of copies of this publication is made for $15.00 while
supplies last.  For more information, please call ARL publications at
(202) 296-2296.

Printed versions of the annual series of the ARL Statistics are available
for $70.00 with the 1992-93 data being the most recent ones.