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| Format: | Recurso educativo Open Access |
| Language: | en |
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2000
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| Online Access: | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED437983 |
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- Academic Libraries: 1996. E.D. TABS. Cahalan, Margaret W. Justh, Natalie M. Academic Libraries Higher Education Library Collections Library Expenditures Library Personnel Library Services Library Statistics Library Surveys Questionnaires Reference Services Tables (Data) Based on information from the 1996-97 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) Academic Libraries survey, this document presents statistics on libraries in U.S. higher education institutions. Specifically, data are provided on: circulation and interlibrary loan transactions; public service hours; number served, number of reference transactions, and information service to groups; number of books, bound serials, and bound government documents held at the end of the year, and number of libraries by number of volumes; number of units and linear feet held at the end of the year and added during the year; number of unduplicated titles held at the end of the year; number of unduplicated titles added during the year; number and percentage of FTE (full-time equivalent) staff; total operating expenditures and number of libraries by category of total operating expenditures; library operating expenditures by object of expenditure, and salaries as a percentage of total operating expenditures; operating expenditures for information resources, equipment, and other selected expenditures by category; percentage of institutions with selected electronic services; and circulation, number of books and bound serials volumes held at the end of the year/added during the year, total staff, and expenditures per FTE student. An introductory section highlights selected results and summarizes the methodology. A copy of the questionnaire is included. (MES)