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ARL Analysis – Briefing #4.a Summary Info. Pat Burns, Interim Dean. Outline. ARL Types of Analyses CSU Peer Institutions’ Profiles Analyses using ARL data Collections & Service Expenditures Summary tables below in this Briefing 4.a Detailed graphs in Briefing 4.b.
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ARL Analysis – Briefing #4.aSummary Info Pat Burns, Interim Dean ARL Briefing #4.a
ARL Briefing #4.a Outline • ARL • Types of Analyses • CSU Peer Institutions’ Profiles • Analyses using ARL data • Collections & Service • Expenditures • Summary tables below in this Briefing 4.a • Detailed graphs in Briefing 4.b
ARL Briefing #4.a Abbreviations & Definitions • FTE – Full time equivalent • Lib – Library • Students – total student FTE, grad + undergrad • TT – Tenure track
ARL Briefing #4.a ARL • Member organization of about 110 premier research libraries • Over 100 years old • Maintains a robust and consistent longitudinal database of Library data • Research libraries have a relatively unique mission for collections and preservation
ARL Briefing #4.a ARL Data • Are annual • Are sometimes missing – shows as zero • Are not as ‘clean’ as one would like • But, overall, are very good and very consistent • All ‘people’ are defined in terms of Full-Time Equivalent (FTE), not ‘heads’ • Normalization is per FTE Tenure Track Faculty
ARL Briefing #4.a Types of Analyses • Who – our peer institutions (from Fact Book) • What • Institutional profiles • Library: collections, expenditures • How • Absolute – how does our Library compare with other research libraries in an absolute sense • Normalized– how does our Library compare with other research libraries in a relative sense • Why – to inform decision making
ARL Briefing #4.a Institutional Profiles
ARL Briefing #4.a Peers: ARL Rank in 2007 (Latest) • CALIFORNIA, DAVIS 64 • COLORADO 70 • COLORADO STATE 103 • ILLINOIS, URBANA 13 • IOWA STATE 81 • MICHIGAN STATE 40 • N. CAROLINA STATE 41 • OHIO STATE 27 • OKLAHOMA STATE 89 • PURDUE 46 • TEXAS A&M 26 • WASHINGTON STATE 99
ARL Briefing #4.a Institutional Profiles
ARL Briefing #4.a Collections & Service
ARL Briefing #4.a Collections
ARL Briefing #4.a Library Expenditures
ARL Briefing #4.a Rank = 6th
ARL Briefing #4.a Library Expenditures