The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published the Academic Health Sciences Library Statistics 2005-2006. Sixty five medical libraries at ARL member institutions in North America provided data on collections, expenditures, personnel and services.


You can get more information about the ARL Academic Health Sciences Library Statistics or download the data files or a PDF of the publication, at http://www.arl.org/stats/annualsurveys/med/.



Highlights:

• 65 of the 113 ARL university libraries responded to the survey.
• Health Sciences libraries reported median values of 245,212 volumes held and 3,939 gross volumes added.
• Library materials made up the largest portion of total expenditures (46.29%) followed by salaries and wages (41.25%)
• The ARL libraries reported spending a total of $51, 689,469 on electronic resources. That is a median of 54.29% of the their total materials budget.
• $47,179,215 of that materials budget was spent on electronic serials, leaving approximately 11% to other electronic resources.

Check out the report and see how your library compares to others.