Yesterday the ResourceShelf mentioned that the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published the ARL Academic Health Sciences Library Statistics 2003–04. It includes information on collections, expenditures, personnel, and services in 66 medical libraries at ARL member institutions throughout North America.

According to the ARL, "the reporting health sciences libraries held a median of 235,225 volumes, had total expenditures of $224,697,410, and employed 2,550 FTE staff. Expenditures for materials and staff accounted for the bulk of total expenditures, at 43% each. Respondents reported spending a total of $34,135,193 for electronic materials, or a median of 36% of their total materials budgets; this includes a total of $32,473,238 for electronic serials."

For more information or to download copies go to:
http://www.arl.org/stats/lawmed/medindex.html