Statistics
Commentaries on the CARL Statistics
- 2004-2005
- 2003-2004
- 2002-2003
- 2001-2002
- 2000-2001
- 1999-2000
- 1998-1999 : Highlights
- 1998-1999 : An Introduction and Retrospective Overview
Statistical Survey of Canadian University Libraries
LibQUAL+ (TM) Canada
Workshops
LibQUAL+® & Beyond : Applying Your Survey Results & Other Performance Measures in Library Practice. A LibQUAL+ Canada Workshop co-sponsored by the Canadian Association of Research Libraries & Association of Research Libraries. October 24-25 , 2007, Ottawa, Ontario
June 16, 2007 - Ottawa Congress Centre Co-sponsored by the Canadian Association of Research Libraries and the Association of Research Libraries more...
LibQUAL+TM 2007 - Canadian "consortial submission" more...3rd Northumbria International Conference
A report prepared by Mr. Amos Lakos, University of Waterloo on The 3rd
Northumbria International conference on Performance Measurement in Libraries
and Information Services more...
Statistics and Performance Measures for Research Libraries - Research and Developments
Statistical data about library activities has always provided important
inf ormation to library managers. Performance and output measures contribute
to increasing service quality; making purchasing decisions; as well as benchmarking
tools to identify best practices. more...
Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) Statistics more...
Press releases
Borrowing of laptop computers a popular trend in Canadian research
libraries
OTTAWA (October 22, 2007
According to the newly-released CARL Statistiques 2005-2006 Statistics,
more than half of CARL member libraries (16) reported the lending of laptops
as a service to users. A number of libraries also provide wireless Ethernet
cards .These are two of the many ways in which today’s research library
supports students, teachers and researchers. [more...]
Washington DC (October 22, 2007)—LibQUAL+® Releases 2007
Survey Publications
Results from two groups participating in the spring 2007 LibQUAL+® survey
are now available for purchase:
The LibQUAL+® Canada results notebook includes data from 3 government
institutions, 45 colleges/universities, and 5 community colleges. Of the
53 participating institutions, 10 offered dual-language surveys and 9 offered
their surveys only in French. French-language respondents gave higher scores
for perceived service quality in Affect of Service, Information Control,
and Library as Place than did other respondents
[more...]
Research library spending on electronic serials surpasses print
serials for the second consecutive year
OTTAWA (September 29, 2006)
Spending on electronic serials by Canada’s research libraries in 2004–2005
rose to just over $94 million dollars, a 20% increase over 2003–2004,
compared to a decrease of 3% on print serials expenditures to $69.6 million
dollars. more...
Research library spending on electronic serials surpasses print
serials for the first time.
OTTAWA (August 23, 2005)
Spending on electronic serials by Canada’s research libraries in 2003
– 2004 rose to just under $78.5 million dollars, a 38.4% increase
over 2002-2003, compared to a decrease of 20% on print serials expenditures
to $71.7 million dollars. more...
Research Library Spending on Electronic Serials Up Nearly 40%.
OTTAWA (January 15, 2004)
Spending on electronic serials by Canada’s research libraries rose
from an average of $1.01 million in 2000-2001 to $1.40 million in 2001-2002
– a remarkable increase of 38.6%. more...
1998-99
Statistics show increasing service demands at Canada's research libraries.
more...
