ACADEMIC LIBRARY STATISTICS
Expenditure
Staff and users
|
|
Universities |
HE colleges | |
|
Old |
New | ||
|
No. of institutions |
67 |
42 |
60 |
|
Students FTE |
735,990 |
609,613 |
178,980 |
|
Academic & academic related staff (FTE) |
72,785 |
32,319 |
9,300 |
|
Students total |
969,944 |
712,510 |
208,314 |
|
Academic staff total |
85,021 |
35,855 |
10,243 |
|
Reg'd external users |
237,000 |
28,000 |
16,000 |
|
Total potential users |
1,292,000 |
776,000 |
235,000 |
|
Professional staff FTE |
1,840 |
1,259 |
510 |
|
Total library staff FTE |
5,120 |
3,191 |
1,070 |
|
FTE students & academic staff per FTE professional library staff |
440 |
510 |
369 |
|
Academic (& acad related) staff |
252 |
243 |
220 |
Books and periodicals
|
(£ sterling) |
Universities |
HE colleges | |
|
Old |
New | ||
|
Bookspend per FTE student (inc. A/V) |
35.24* |
26.73 |
29.13 |
|
Bookspend per user |
20.08 |
21.00 |
22.19 |
|
Average cost of books (incl A/V) |
18.88 |
16.95 |
13.34 |
|
Periodicals spend per FTE student |
60.14* |
25.47 |
18.05 |
|
Periodicals spend per user |
34.26 |
20.01 |
13.75 |
|
Average cost of periodicals |
139.22 |
114.56 |
87.33 |
|
Spend on electronic resources per FTE student |
10.53 |
9.77 |
7.84 |
|
Spend on electronic resources per user |
6.00 |
7.67 |
5.97 |
Users = students and academic staff (bodies) and external users
* Copyright deposit items free
Use
|
|
Universities |
HE colleges | |
|
Old |
New | ||
|
Current periodicals per FTE academic staff |
5.8 |
4.2 |
4.0 |
|
Total book issues per annum |
36,983 |
31,458 |
9,337 |
|
Book issues per FTE student |
50 |
52 |
52 |
|
Book issues per user |
29 |
41 |
40 |
|
FTE students per seat |
7.6 |
9.5 |
9.6 |
|
FE students per workstation |
56.9 |
41.3 |
42.0 |
|
Total visits per annum (000s) |
61,015 |
44,953 |
14,101 |
|
Average visits per FTE student |
83 |
74 |
79 |
|
Inter-library borrowing per FTE academic staff |
11.1 |
13.9 |
9.4 |
Users = students and academic staff (bodies) and external users
2000 L.I.S.T. online: Special
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