of Research Libraries Where's the Money Libraries … Going, Going, … Martha Kyrillidou SSP 25th Annual Meeting, May 28-30, 2003, Baltimore, MD

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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of Research Libraries Avg. Annual % Change Serial Unit Cost 7.7% Serial Expenditures 7.7% Serials Purchased 0.6% Monograph Unit Cost 3.6% Monograph Expenditures 3.1% Monographs Purchased -0.3% CPI3.2%

of Research Libraries Private Institutions Avg. Annual % Change Serial Unit Cost 7.8% Serial Expenditures 7.8% Serials Purchased 0.4% Monograph Unit Cost 2.9% Monograph Expenditures 3.1% Monographs Purchased -0.8% CPI3.2%

of Research Libraries Public Institutions Avg. Annual % Change Serial Unit Cost 8.0% Serial Expenditures 7.9% Serials Purchased 0.3% Monograph Unit Cost 3.9% Monograph Expenditures 2.9% Monographs Purchased -0.1% CPI3.2%

of Research Libraries Avg. Annual % Change Serial Expenditures 7.7% Monograph Expenditures 3.1% Total Materials Expenditures 6.7% Total Salary Expenditures 4.7% Operating Expenditures 4.2% Total Library Expenditures 5.1% CPI3.2%

of Research Libraries Public Institutions Avg. Annual % Change Serial Expenditures 7.9% Monograph Expenditures 2.9% Total Materials Expenditures 6.1% Total Salary Expenditures 5.0% Operating Expenditures 4.5% Total Library Expenditures 4.9% CPI3.2% HEPI3.7%

of Research Libraries Private Institutions Avg. Annual % Change Serial Expenditures 7.8% Monograph Expenditures 3.1% Total Materials Expenditures 7.3% Total Salary Expenditures 4.7% Operating Expenditures 3.4% Total Library Expenditures 5.6% CPI3.2% HEPI3.7%

of Research Libraries Expenditures for Electronic Resources 110 ARL Libraries have reported total 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 ARL Statistics, or an average of $8,281,190. Thus, In , ARL institutions spent an average of 19.54% of their library materials budgets on electronic resources.

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