ACADEMIC LIBRARY STATISTICS
Expenditure 2001-02
Staff and users 2001-02
|
|
Universities |
HE colleges | |
|
Old |
New | ||
|
No. of institutions |
67 |
43 |
60 |
|
Students FTE |
785,100 |
614,000 |
186,600 |
|
Academic & academic related staff (FTE) |
81,800 |
33,400 |
10,100 |
|
Other employees (FTE) |
105,290 |
40,600 |
12,400 |
|
Registered external users |
277,300 |
33,800 |
42,200 |
|
Total FTE users* |
1,083,100 |
701,500 |
226,000 |
|
Professional staff (FTE) |
1,910 |
1,288 |
500 |
|
Total library staff (FTE) |
5,530 |
3,334 |
1,140 |
|
FTE students per FTE professional library staff |
411 |
477 |
373 |
|
FTE users per FTE total library staff |
196 |
210 |
198 |
*External users counted as 0.4 FTE
Information provision 2001-02
|
(£ sterling) |
Universities |
HE colleges | |
|
Old |
New | ||
|
Bookspend per FTE student (inc. A/V) |
34.53 |
25.25 |
29.02 |
|
Bookspend per user |
25.03 |
22.10 |
23.96 |
|
Average cost of books (incl A/V) |
15.65* |
17.17 |
14.23 |
|
Periodicals spend per FTE student |
73.09 |
32.46 |
25.01 |
|
Periodicals spend per FTE user |
52.98 |
28.41 |
20.65 |
|
Average cost of periodicals |
111.10* |
77.04 |
67.22 |
|
Spend on electronic resources per FTE student |
14.08 |
10.52 |
9.34 |
|
Spend on electronic resources per FTE user |
10.21 |
9.21 |
7.71 |
Users = students and academic staff (bodies) and external users
* Copyright deposit items free
Use 2001-02
|
|
Universities |
HE colleges | |
|
Old |
New | ||
|
Current periodicals per FTE academic staff |
8.0 |
7.7 |
6.9 |
|
Total book issues per annum |
41,700,030 |
32,726,061 |
10,523,450 |
|
Book issues per FTE student |
53 |
53 |
56 |
|
Book issues per user |
39 |
47 |
47 |
|
FTE students per seat |
7.7 |
9.8 |
10.8 |
|
FTE students per workstation |
47 |
36 |
36 |
|
Total visits per annum (000s) |
59,544 |
43,072 |
16,224 |
|
Average visits per FTE student |
76 |
70 |
87 |
|
Inter-library borrowing per FTE academic staff |
7.8 |
10.2 |
9.5 |
Average prices of British academic books
|
Category |
1996-97* (£) |
2001-02* (£) |
|
All Humanities |
35.66 |
34.66 |
|
All Social Sciences |
47.27 |
44.18 |
|
All Applied Social Sciences |
36.25 |
37.74 |
|
All Biological Sciences |
47.80 |
60.25 |
|
All listed Pure Sciences |
59.00 |
59.01 |
|
Computer Sciences |
34.10 |
37.24 |
|
All Technology |
63.00 |
65.11 |
|
All Medicine |
42.20 |
45.46 |
|
All books |
39.22 |
40.27 |
2003 LIST online: publishing and book trade statistics
