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Where's the Money Libraries … Going, Going, …. Martha Kyrillidou SSP 25th Annual Meeting, May 28-30, 2003, Baltimore, MD. Association of Research Libraries. Mission: Shaping and influencing factors affecting the future of Research Libraries in the process of scholarly communication
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Where's the MoneyLibraries … Going, Going, … Martha KyrillidouSSP 25th Annual Meeting, May 28-30, 2003, Baltimore, MD
Association of Research Libraries • Mission: Shaping and influencing factors affecting the future of Research Libraries in the process of scholarly communication • Members: 124 major research libraries in North America • Users: More than 3 million students and faculty served • Service measures: 75 million circulations 17 million reference transactions • 42,000 FTE staff employed • Members’ total expenditures are over $3.2 billion
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Expenditures for Electronic Resources 110 ARL Libraries have reported total 2001-02 e-resource expenditures of $170,887,737, or an average of $1,553,525. Those libraries reported $910,930,850 in total library materials on the 2001-02 ARL Statistics, or an average of $8,281,190. Thus, In 2001-02, ARL institutions spent an average of 19.54% of their library materials budgets on electronic resources.
Go, Walker, Go … Martha KyrillidouAssociation of Research Libraries Martha@arl.org