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Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 16:54:36 -0400
From: Martha Kyrillidou <martha@CNI.ORG>
Subject: ARL Statistics

ARL Announces...

The ARL Statistics and Measurement Program offers updated publications and
enhanced electronic services.  Detailed information on each of the
following is attached.  For additional information contact Martha
Kyrillidou, Statistics and Measurement Program Officer (martha@cni.org).

__ARL STATISTICS 1994-95 presenting the latest edition of the oldest
     and most comprehensive continuing library statistical series in
     North America.

   **** DOCUMENTS SERIAL COSTS FOR THE LAST TEN YEARS ****

__INTERACTIVE 1995 ARL STATISTICS AVAILABLE ON THE WWW at
     http://www.lib.virginia.edu/socsci/arl/test-arl

__ARL ACADEMIC LAW AND MEDICAL LIBRARY STATISTICS presents data on
     collections size, and growth, materials and operating expenditures,
     staffing, and public service activities for law and medical libraries

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     ARL STATISTICS 1994-95: The Association of Research Libraries is
pleased to announce the availability of the ARL Statistics 1994-95.
This annual publication represents the oldest and most comprehensive
continuing library statistical series in North America, reporting
research library trends in collections, expenditures, and staffing
levels.  For the first time, an extensive array of service measures such
as circulation, reference, library instruction, and interlibrary loan
are reported.  The publication also continues to update the trends of
serial and monograph costs in research libraries.

     Reported findings suggest that libraries are dramatically
increasing their service activities without a corresponding increase in
staffing.  For example, the 108 academic library members provided 68,000
teaching sessions during 1994-95.  On average, the typical ARL library
offered the equivalent of 14 three-hour credit courses last year,
assuming that each session was an hour or more.

     Library services are used more while the costs of ownership of
library materials continues to be prohibitively expensive.  Since 1986,
ARL libraries doubled expenditures for serials while buying 8% fewer
serials.  Serial cancellations have become the norm while the scholarly
community has not been able to restructure to alleviate some of the
effects of spiraling prices or the transformational impacts of
technology.

ARL Statistics, 1994-95.  118 pages pbk.  ISSN 0147-2135.  1996.
$65.00/$35.00
To establish a subscription or to order copies, contact ARL publications
(pubs@cni.org).

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     INTERACTIVE 1995 ARL STATISTICS: The 1994-95 ARL statistics are
now available at the ARL statistics Web site.  A new feature this year
provides tables of any ARL data category in rank order.  You can also
create ratios of any two categories and display a table of the values
for all ARL libraries.  This feature allows you to see previously
unavailable data such as total circulations per student or interlibrary
borrowing per graduate student or faculty member.  To try this new
feature, go to

    http://www.lib.virginia.edu/socsci/arl/test-arl/simple.html

     Also now available are copies of the 1994-95 ARL statistics in
spreadsheet format, together with documentation.  These files can easily
be downloaded through a Web browser to your local computer, and then
manipulated with Excel or Quattro or Lotus for local needs.  The files
are available at

    http://www.lib.virginia.edu/socsci/arl/1994/1995.html

     Adventurous users may also want to try out other capabilities of
the evolving ARL statistics pages at

    http://www.lib.virginia.edu/socsci/arl/test-arl

     Still under construction, the site now provides a number of
varieties of graphic and statistical analysis for ARL statistics, such
as interactive regression analysis.  Readers are invited to send
comments Martha Kyrillidou, Program Officer for Statistics and
Measurement (martha@cni.org).

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     ARL ACADEMIC LAW AND MEDICAL LIBRARY STATISTICS 1977-78 to
1991-92 together with a three year update, 1992-93 to 1994-95, is
available now from ARL publications.  The 1994-95 data indicate that
library materials are more expensive in medical than in law libraries.
A complimentary copy of this publication is being mailed to the each
member library.  Please alert the law and medical libraries in your
institution about the availability of this new series.

ARL Academic Law and Medical Library Statistics 1992-93-1994-95.  158 pbk.
ISSN 1088-1093.  1996. $65.00/$35.00
To establish a subscription or to order copies, contact ARL publications
(pubs@cni.org).