Air University
Question #38, Number of FTE Faculty
Question #39, Number of FTE Students
Auburn
1.b.i.&total. completed several retrospective conversion projects
2. approval vendors supplied fewer volumes
4.b.& total large drop in government document serials
7. last year's total incorrect
9. ASERL incorrect number for 04-05 (s/b ARL stat: 10120)
12.additional titles added from Naxos
15.b. includes serial databases that were counted in 'other' last year
15.c. excludes serial databases counted as serials expenses
37. University added four (4) new fields.
41. Data provided in FY04-05 survey was incorrectly computed.  Correct number should have been 1560 instead of 2314.
Clemson University
1.b.i. Includes electronic books from Knovel, 229 titles and Dekker, 21 titles.
9. Recorded in cubic ft., not linear.
32 & 33. These figures exclude media as well as reserves (unable to separate media circulations from reserves).
S.5. Consists of last year's count plus a count of ebooks added.
S.17. No. of unique items and size estimated. Nature of collections: historical photographs about Clemson University and South Carolina history. Available at www.lib.clemson.edu/spcol/scocol.html and at http://www.lib.clemson.edu/campus/index.htm
Duke University
Main
1a. 8,087 volumes were omitted from last fiscal year's data.
1b. Increase apparent because last fiscal year resulted in decreases due to data loss, a shortened fiscal year and the implementation of new workflows in a new ILS.
1bi. Increase apparent because last fiscal year resulted in decreases due to data loss, a shortened fiscal year and the implementation of new workflows in a new ILS.
2. Increase due to an increased ammount of monographs purchased.
4. Increase due to the inclusion of electronic journals. Previously these data were not available.
4a. Increase due to the inclusion of electronic journals. Previously these data were not available.
8. Increase apparent because 26,501 items were omitted last fiscal year.
15a. Increase due to an increased collections budget.
15c. The main library is not able to disaggregate the expenses of various formats.
15d. Increase due to increased miscellaneous expenditures.
17c. Increase due to an increase in student assistants hired.
19. Increase due to an increase in operating expenditures. Including printers and other peripherals purchased during library renovation.
21. Increase due to an increase of expenditures in this area.
22. Increase due to an increase of expenditures in this area.
23b. The Business Library reported an increase in expenditures in this area.
27. Current Periodicals was consolidated with Microforms into one service point.
29. Increase due to an increase in library presentations to groups.
30. Increase due to an increase in library presentations to groups.
34. Increase due to higher requests in this area.
35. Increase due to higher requests in this area.
39. Increase apparent because enrollment statistics now include both degree seeking and non-degree seeking students. Previously only degree seeking students were reported.
40. Increase apparent because enrollment statistics now include both degree seeking and non-degree seeking students. Previously only degree seeking students were reported.
41. Increase apparent because enrollment statistics now include both degree seeking and non-degree seeking students. Previously only degree seeking students were reported.
42. Increase apparent because enrollment statistics now include both degree seeking and non-degree seeking students. Previously only degree seeking students were reported.
Supplemental
1-5. Increase due to improved data gathering capabilities in this area.
7.  Excluded: Full-text journals in full-text databases with books, reports, etc. since the journal cost is not delineated; NC Live payment is for a variety of electronic resources, some of which contain full-text journals and some aggregated collections of journals, but there is no way to determine the cost of the journals. We can determine the quantity of e-journals from SFX (question 7).
8. Excluded: Full-text journals in full-text databases with books, reports, etc. since the journal cost is not delineated; NC Live payment is for a variety of electronic resources, some of which contain full-text journals, but there is no way to determine the cost of the journals. We can determine the quantity of e-journals from SFX (question 2).
9. Increase due to improved data gathering capabilities in this area.
10. Decrease due to the lack of data available in this area this fiscal year.
Most of our electronic books are in collections which also include journals, reports, etc., and there is no way to determine the book cost. We can determine the quantity of electronic books from SFX (question 5).
11. Increase due to an increase in virtual reference transactions.
13-15. Unable to count these under current access and authentication methods, or due to sharing resources with other Duke libraries. Number of vendors supplying some statistics is negligible.
13a -15a. This is an estimate.
16a-16b. Actual ammount is much higher. The Main Library System data are omitted.
17a-17c. Increase due to an increase in production from the Main Library System's newly created Digital Production Center.
19b. Increase due to an increase in expenditures in this area.
Emory University
1a.a. Includes 894 e-books: EBL: 91; Knovel: 803.
19. 2006 did not have extraordinary operating expensees like 2005 did.  2005 included one-time costs for Dawson, and renovations of level 1.
23b.GALILEO services and costs have expanded dramatically from 2005 to 2006.
39-42.Reported fall 2005 rather than fall 2004 data last year for enrollment, so this year's numbers show no change (39-42).
Florida State University
Differences from 04-05 and 05-06 are due to the following:
Fringe reported in different categories
More electronic journals were activated
New measuring procedures
Availability of free on-line journals, consortia and FCLA
FCLA expenditures included this year
Able to track session uses on more databases
More thorough & comprehensive tracking procedures
More specific on division
New measuring procedures in place
George Mason University
1-2.  Figures do not include cataloged government document monographs.
4a.  Number represents better counting of electronic subscriptions.
7.  Cataloged government documents are included in this figure.
10.  Cartographic materials are not cataloged.
S3.  The dramatic rise from previous figures reflect inclusion of electronic journals in aggregated packages, which was previously not included.
S5.  Includes conference proceedings.
S16b.  Number includes only visits to content pages and not ancillary hits for graphics, menu bars and other supporting materials, which was the case in prior years.
S17b.  This was the first year a new university institutional repository accepted collections.
Georgia State University
Overall note - includes University Library (UL) and Law Library (LL).
1.b.ii.  UL undertook long overdue weeding project during year.
4.b. UL - reflects an increase in the number of electronic serials acquired as part of aggregated packages, but not paid for directly.
26. UL has a number of vacant professional positions for which searches are underway.
S.7  Unable to get an accurate figure for the cost of titles received through GALILEO.
Louisiana State University
1.b. Major weeding project & closed branches
2. funding
10. funding
17.b. unfilled positions
34& 35.  many libraries not operational post-hurricanes Katrina/Rita
S17.c & S18.a. & 18.b. increased digital work
Mississippi State University
1.  Adjusted to show Government Documents items linked from retro collection.
4b.  Count now includes all ejournals activated through Serials Solution.
S.16.a.  Statistics package was upgraded to different application which filters bots and other services previously counted.
S.16.b.  Includes consortium libraries which cannot be excluded.
North Carolina State University
supp 18a: Much of the increase is attributable to the InsideWood database (2.8 million hits).
Tulane University
1a. errors in previous volume counts had omitted several large categories of materials including a large government documents collection
1bii Includes 12,600 music volumes and 428,001 government documents volumes destroyed by hurricane Katrina
6. 9519 microforms checked-in post Katrina plus 18,269 reels of film returned from restoration
7. 1378 checked in post Katrina plus 77,145 salvaged and returning from restoration
University of Alabama
All figures are as of September 30, 2006.
2. Difference due to a large monographic set purchased by Law Library in 2004/2005.
15d. Includes Center for Research Libraries membership.
19. Includes bibliographic utilities, memberships (except CRL), and literature searching.
21. Includes purchase of e-books and 1x full-text collections; increase due to purchase of several major 1x full-text collections (e.g., Eighteenth Century Collections Online)
22. Increase due to continued moving of print plus electronic only subscriptions.
S1. Includes Health Sciences (H.S.)
S2. Includes H.S.
S2. Includes H.S.
S3. Includes H.S.
S4. Includes H.S.
S5. Includes Law & H.S.
S7. Includes Law
S8. Includes H.S.
S9. Includes H.S.
S11. Includes H.S.
S17a. Includes Law
S17c. Includes Law
University of Alabama - Birmingham
1.a. Last year's reported figure for June 30, 2005, of 1,291,138 was an error; this figure is a correction.
Q4 & S.1. The libraries' method of record keeping for serials has changed. This year's figure for serials represents total access to serials, no matter the format or source; figure provided by Serials Solutions.
University of Central Florida
2: Titles only.
17: Includes part time non-student staff.
26a: Includes administrative and professional staff.
S13: Number of sessions dropped because of corrections with prior reporting plus impact of Metalib such that original session stays intact.
S13a: Databases and journal packages that report sessions.
S14a: Databases that report searches.
S17a: Includes 7 external and 11 internal collections.
S19a and S19b: Additional funding received from grants and state sources.
S20: Electronic thesis and dissertations originally included are now printed to include in the print collection.
University of Kentucky
1.a. Revised total for June 30, 2005 (including 39,163 e-books): 3,325,894
17.a. Revised total for 2004-05 professional staff: $4,439,142.
17.b. Revised total for 2004-05 support staff: $2,515,224.
17. Revised total for 2004-05 total salaries: $7,785,188.
20. Revised total library expenditures for 2004-05: $19,463,389.
26.a. Revised total for professional staff FTE 2004-05: 92.
26.b. Revised total for support staff FTE 2004-05: 113.
26. Revised total for Total staff FTE 2004-05: 270.
S.1. (Decrease due primarily to cancellation of InfoTrac.)
S.17.a. 8 main, 93 sub-level collections.
University of Miami
The fiscal year for the University of Miami runs from June 1 through May 31. All figures are as of May 31, 2006, except where indicated. Includes Otto G. Richter Library (central library) and its branches (architecture, business, music, and remote storage facility) and the law, marine, and medical libraries at the University of Miami.
MAIN STATISTICS
1.a. Includes 359,676 e-books, not included in prior years. E-book collections include NetLibrary, Early English Books Online, Gale's 18th Century Collections Online, Women Writers Project, Wright American Fiction, Making of the Modern World, and Making of Modern Law.
4. In prior years medical library serials received included print serials only; current year medical library serials received includes both print and electronic serials.
8. For medical library computer files are included in item 13, audiovisual materials.
13. For medical library all audiovisual materials (lines 10 - 13) and computer files (line 8) are reported on line 13.
15.b. In prior years medical library expenditures included only print titles; current year medical library expenditures include both print and electronic serials titles.
15.c. In prior years line 15c included medical library expenditures for electronic serials; current year medical library expenditures for serials are included in 15b.
17.a. Excludes salaries of the University Librarian and directors of the law and medical libraries. Includes salaries of 40 librarians and 3 non-librarian administrative/professional employees in central library; 10 exempt employees in central library reported as professional staff in 2004-05 are reported as support staff in current year.
17.b. In central library 10 exempt staff reported as professional staff in 2004-05 are reported as support staff in 2005-06.
17.c. Excludes wages for student assistants subsidized by the School of Business Administration.
26.a. Includes 40 librarians and 3 non-librarian administrative/professional employees in central library; 10 exempt employees in central library reported as professional staff in 2004-05 are reported as support staff in current year.
26.b. In central library 10 exempt staff reported as professional staff in 2004-05 are reported as support staff in 2005-06, for a total of 90 support staff in central library.
28. Weekly public service hours for all libraries together totals 120.
31. Reference transactions for marine and architecture libraries are unavailable. Reference transactions are based on enumerations in central, business, and music libraries and sampling in law and medical libraries.
37. Number of Ph.D. fields was recalculated in 2005 by University administration; reported number of Ph.D. fields in 2005 is a result of renaming programs and recombining majors and not a decrease in fields.
SUPPLEMENTARY STATISTICS
S.3. Data not available for central library and branches; law, marine, and medical libraries report 28, 0, and 0 electronic journals not purchased, respectively.
S.11. Includes e-mail reference transactions for the central library and business and music branches and the medical library; law and marine library data are not available. Chat reference service is not currently offered.
S.13. Central library reporting 820,735 sessions for the following 18 resources (number of databases accessed through these resources are listed in parentheses): ABC/CLIO (2); Accuweather/AP Photo Archive (1); AMS (1); ARTstor (1); BioOne (1); CSA (21); EBSCO (19); Elsevier (1); Elsevier/ Engineering Village 2 (3); ISI (3); JHUP (1); Lexis-Nexis (3); OCLC (2); OVID (4); ProQuest (8); SilverPlatter (5); Thomson Gale (6); Wilson (6). Law library reporting 2,990 sessions for 3 resources; medical library reporting 197,642 sessions for 3 resources.
S.14. Central library reporting 1,105,451 searches for the following 19 resources (number of databases accessed through these resource are listed in parentheses): ABC/CLIO (2); Accuweather/AP Photo Archive (1); AMS (1); ARTstor (1); BioOne (1); CSA (21); EBSCO (19); Elsevier (1); Elsevier/ Engineering Village 2 (3); ISI (3); JHUP (1); Lexis-Nexis (3); OCLC (2); OVID (4); Oxford (4); ProQuest (8); SilverPlatter (5); Thomson Gale (6); Wilson (6). Law library reporting 9,601 searches for 3 resources; data not available for medical library.
S.15. Central library reporting 556,131 full-text article requests from the following 17 resources: ACS, AIP, Annual Reviews, ASCE, BioMed Central, BioOne, Blackwell-Synergy, CIAO, Elsevier Science Direct, IEEE, IOP, JSTOR, Nature, Project Muse, Springer, SIAM, Wiley Interscience.
S.16.a. Includes 4,014,507 virtual visits to central library web site and 479,570 visits to medical library website; data are not available for law and marine libraries' web sites. In prior years virtual visits to the central library's web site from inside the library were not excluded but are excluded in current year. Virtual visits to the medical library's web site from inside the medical library are not excluded in current year or in prior years.
S.16.b. Data are not available for central, law and marine libraries; medical library reports 89,419 virtual visits to its catalog.
S.16.c. Virtual visits to the University of Miami Libraries' web site from inside the central library are excluded; virtual visits to the medical library's web site are not excluded; data for law and marine libraries are not available.
S.17.a. Includes the central library's digital collections on Cuban Heritage (http://digital.library.miami.edu/chcdigital/chcdigital.shtml), Caribbean literature (http://scholar.library.miami.edu/cls/CWSIMainPage.php), and Cuban/Latino Theater Archive: http://scholar.library.miami.edu/archivoteatral/), Imagebase (http://www.library.miami.edu/search/eresources/infosheet.php?service_id=455), The Batista Collection (not publicly available), Cuban Photograph Collection (not publicly available). See also the University of Miami Libraries' Digital Library home page: http://www.library.miami.edu/search/digital/digital_collections.html, and the medical library's special collections home page: http://calder.med.miami.edu/special_collections.html. The law library has no digital collections.
S.17.c. The archive files include masters from 25 media collections and 57 image collections digitized from materials held in the Cuban Heritage Collection, and Special Collections Division and from other sources.  The University of Miami Libraries' Digital Library home page: http://www.library.miami.edu/search/digital/digital_collections.html features publicly available web sites developed using these still and moving images.
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Statistics include the Institute of Marine Sciences Library.
15d Includes payments for CRL membership
20 Includes $4,102,193 in grants, trust, and other special funds (w/out benefits); excludes $304,109 in expenditures for the Triangle Research Libraries Network from funds contributed by Duke, North Carolina State, and North Carolina Central Universities.
26 Includes 4.35 professionals on special grant funds; 0 FTE on special projects. Excludes 2.25 FTE paid from funds contributed by Duke, North Carolina State, and North Carolina Central universities for support of the Triangle Research Libraries Network.
37 Number taken from new source in 2005-06 to reflect strictly Ph.D. programs, resulting in lower figure than last year.
38 Reduction due to recalculation of data from new source more consistent with ARL definitions. Previous year figures did not exclude all categories set forth in ARL definition.
University of North Carolina - Charlotte
19. Paid for part of compact shelving.
University of Tennesee
Main:
1a. 2979945 was number reported for "Volumes held June 30, 2005" although ARL has 2004 number of 2920486.  Correct number should be 2979588 which changed slightly due to change in counting method.
1b. Added 141,300 e-book units.
1.  The total number of e-books held as of June 30, 2006 was 264,169, coming from three collections: Eighteenth Century Collections Online, 136,209; Early English Books Online, 93,356, and selected NetLibrary collections, 34,604.
2.  Added 141,300 e-book units from Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Early English Books Online, and selected NetLibrary collections.
4b. Removed 5617 titles from the count, for Gayle Info Track Onefile database which were incorrectly included in 2004-05 (consortial full-text articles).  We now report these titles in Supplementary Statistics, question 1.
Supplemental:
23b. Cost for 23b is calculated from a % of searches done over the course of a year.  The price increase from previous year is due to the use of a federated search engine (Powersearch).
Vanderbilt University
1a) This number represents the previous year's ending number plus an adjustment upward to reflect e-books not included in the previous year.
1bi) Of the 191,714 volumes added during the year, 136,431 represent the addition of 18th-Century Collections Online.
15c) Some expenditures were previously reported in "Miscellaneous."
21) Primarily for purchase of electronic journal backfiles.
38) This is the 2006/07 number.  Data for 2005/06 is not available.
S17b) The 2004/05 data did not include the Television News Archive.  For the 2005/06 survey, this data has been included.
Virginia Commonwealth University
1a) Number of uncataloged government documents has been adjusted.
2) NetLibrary Shared Collection V = 7030 titles.
S17) VCU Libraries digital collections include: scanned images and text, video, and electronic theses and dissertations. There are 48 distinct collections with approximately 15,159 items (15,233 MB). They are primarily linked to from:
* http://www.library.vcu.edu/exhibits/
* http://www.library.vcu.edu/tml/oralpathology/
* http://etd.vcu.edu/
The collections are currently stored and accessed through
* Static HTML pages
* Searchable MYSQL databases with Cold Fusion middleware
* Electronic Theses and Dissertations are stored and accessed through a separate server running the ETD-b software (http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ETD-db/developer/).
Wake Forest University
1.a. Volumes held June 30, 2005:  Total adjusted to reflect cataloged digital full text ebook collections, including Evans and ECCO.
1.b.ii. Volumes withdrawn during year: Large government documents weeding project underway.
17.a. Professional staff:  Salary for Business Librarian funded by MBA school not included.
18. Fringe benefits are 1,300,386 and are not included in salaries reported.
Supplementary statistics: Z. Smith Reynolds Library and Carpenter Medical Library are included.  Professional Center Library (Law and MBA) does not collect any of the information requested in Supplementary Statistics section.
S17-19:  Library Digitization Activities:  Only the Z. Smith Reynolds Library reports digital collections.