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STATISTICAL SURVEY OF CANADIAN UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES: 2006 - 2007

Expenditures, Establishment and Collections

* If an exact figure is unavailable, simply enter "U/A" in the appropriate field.
* If a question is not applicable in your library, simply enter "N/A" in the appropriate field.
* If the appropriate answer is zero or none, use "0".

Fill out the information in each section as requested. You will receive a confirmation message that you can print. Please read the specific instructions for this questionnaire.
Institution Information

Name, title, address, phone number, e-mail and fax of the individual(s) responsible for completing this questionnaire for your library:

Institution:
Name:
Title:
Telephone:
Fax:
Email:
Alternate Contact Name:
Alternate Contact Email:

Financial year start:
(ex: 2005-01-31 for Jan. 31, 2005)

Financial year ends:
(ex: 2005-12-01 for Dec. 1, 2005)

I. Collections

1. Print volumes
1.1 Volumes held at the end of the previous year
1.2 Volumes added during the year - Gross
1.3 Volumes withdrawn during the year
1.4 Net additions (Subtract line 1.3 from line 1.2)
1.5 Total volumes (Add line 1.1 and line 1.4)

2. Other formats

2.1 Microform units
2.2 Government documents not counted elsewhere
2.3 Manuscripts and archives (linear metre)
2.4 Printed music scores
2.5 Cartographic materials
2.6 Graphic materials
2.7 Audio materials
2.8 Film and Video materials

3. Monographs

3.1 Print monograph titles
3.2 Monograph volumes purchased
3.3 Electronic monograph titles
3 .4 Electronic Monograph titles purchased
3.5 Total monograph title

4. Current serials received

4.1 Number of print and microform titles
4.2 Number of electronic titles
4.3 Number of subscriptions purchased
4.4 Number of electronic serial titles included in aggregator packages
4.5 Number of titles cancelled
4.6 Total value of cancelled titles

II. Expenditures

5. Library materials

5.1 Expenditures for print monograph volumes
5.2 Expenditures for electronic monograph titles
5.3 Expenditures for current print & microform serials
5.4 Expenditures for current electronic serials
5.5 Expenditures for other library materials (e.g. microforms)
5.6 All materials fund expenditures not included above
5.7 Total library materials (add lines 5.1 to 5.6)
5.8 Contract binding
5.9 Total institutional funding received from external sources (eg. O.I.T., B.C.K.N.)
5.10 Expenditures on behalf of the institutions by external agencies

6. Salaries and Wages

6.1 Professional staff
6.2 Support staff
6.3 Casual staff
6.4 Total staffing expenditures (add lines 6.1 to 6.3)
6.5 Fringe benefits
6.6 Other operating expenditures
6.7 Total library expenditures (add lines 5.7, 5.8, 6.4 & 6.6)

III. Personnel

7. FTE

7.1 Librarians FTE
7.2 Other professionals FTE
7.3 Total professionals FTE (add line 7.1 and 7.2)
7.4 Support staff FTE
7.5 Casual staff FTE
7.6 Total staff FTE (Add lines 7.3, 7.4, and 7.5)

IV. Local Characteristics

8. Local Characteristics

8.1 Basic volume count is
8.2 Government publications are included in count of Current serials
8.3 Fringe benefits are included in expenditures for salaries and wages
8.4 Law Library statistics are included
8.5 Medical Library statistics are included
8.6 List all libraries included:

Footnotes

Reporting libraries are urged to record in the footnotes section any information that would clarify the figures submitted. Explanatory footnotes will be included with the published statistics.

Note: Please refer to your library's footnotes as they appear in the published statistics of your association 2005-2006. Please indicate revisions, additions and deletions. If any footnotes published last year are unchanged, please indicate that they are still valid or not.

Please always enter the line # the footnote applies to.

Example: #1.4 -The number included titles that were ordered in 2006

Emerging Services in Libraries

Question 1

1.1 Is there an Information / Knowledge / Learning Commons in the library?
1.2 If yes, is it the
(Please provide the URL leading to a description of the facilities and its services as a footnote)


Question 2

2.1 Has the library undertaken any project to convert text or graphics to digital form?

If yes, were these funded from (check all that apply)
2.2 Library funds
2.3 Government funds
2.4 Private funds
2.5 University funds

Question 3

Does your library offer assistance to patrons for:

3.1 Electronic publishing of textual material?
3.2 Quantitative and qualitative analysis and interpretation of numeric data?

Question 4

Does your library offer electronic reference services:

4.1 Asynchronously (e.g. Email)
4.2 Synchronously (e.g. chat software that is continuously monitored for extended period of time)
4.3 Using videoconferencing, remote screen capture, or multi-media enhancements
4.4 Number of hours per week this service is offered

Question 5

Does the library lend electronics equipment such as:

5.1 Laptops?
5.2 Wireless ethernet cards?
5.3 Software? (If yes, what type and please specify in a footnote)
5.4 PDAs?
5.5 E-Book readers?
5.6 Other? (please specify)

Question 6

6.1 Does the library use linking software to access full-text databases?

Footnotes

Use, Facilities and Services

1. Collections Use

1.1 Number of initial loans
1.2 Number of renewals
1.3 Do you circulate journals?
1.4 Number of reserve loans
1.5 Number of uses of materials in-house

2. Services Hours and staffed Service Points

2.1 Number of staffed library service points
2.2 Number of weekly public service hours

3. Library instruction and facilities

3.1 Number of library presentations to groups If you are using sampling please provide a footnote
3.2 Number of total participants in group presentations reported on line 3.1 If you are using sampling please provide a footnote
3.3 Total number of reference transactions If you are using sampling please provide a footnote
3.4 Turnstile count

4. Document Delivery Traffic

4.1 Total number of documents sent directly to individuals from own collections
4.1.1 Copies
4.1.2 Originals

4.2 Total number of requests received from other institutions (filled and unfilled)
4.2.1 Number of originals sent
4.2.2 Number of copies sent
4.2.3 Total number of requests received from other institutions filled

4.3 Total number of requests sent to other institutions (filled and unfilled)
4.3.1 Number of originals received
4.3.2 Number of copies received
4.3.3 Total number of requests filled by other institutions
4.4 Report the number of items received under contract

Footnotes

 

5 - Salary Survey for 2006 - 2007.

You can submit your data using the WEB form (one by one) or by EMAIL using a spreadsheet like Excel or Quattro, please follow the example below.

Vous pouvez soumettre vos données en utilisant le formulaire WEB ( un à la fois) ou par courriel en utilisant un chiffrier tel Excel ou Quattro, veuillez suivre l'exemple ci-dessous.

Institution:

Staff ID

No d'identification

Salary, July 1, 2004

Salaire au 1er juillet 2004

Category of the position

Catégorie du poste

Years of professional experience

Années d'expérience professionnelle

Years of professional experience in the reporting institution

Années d'expérience professionnelle dans l'institution


 

 

EXAMPLE / EXEMPLE

Institution Staff ID / No d'identification Salary, July 1, 2003 / Salaire le 1 julllet 2003 Category of the position / Catégorie du poste Years of professional experience / Années d'expérience professionnelle Years of professional experience in the reporting institution /Années d'expérience professionnelle dans l'institution
University of Ottawa 1   NONADMIN    
University of Ottawa 2   ADMIN    
University of Ottawa 3   OTHER    
University of Ottawa 4        
University of Ottawa 5        
University of Ottawa 6        
  ….        

 


Thank you for taking the time to answer the questions.

Gilbert Caron
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Revised: August 06, 2003.

 

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