The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published the ARL Academic Health Sciences Library Statistics 2008-2009, which presents data that describe collections, expenditures, personnel, and services in 62 medical libraries at ARL member institutions in the US and Canada.
In 2008-2009, the reporting health sciences libraries held a median of 230,011 volumes, spent a total of $235,821,026, and employed 2,131 FTE staff. Expenditures for materials and staff accounted for the bulk of total expenditures, at about 50 percent and 41 percent respectively. Respondents reported spending a total of $83,986,222 for electronic materials, or an average of about 76 percent of their total materials budgets; this includes a total of $78,539,253 for electronic serials.
Interested parties may visit http://www.arl.org/stats/annualsurveys/med to download the data files.
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