ACADEMIC LIBRARY STATISTICS
Expenditure 2002-03
Staff and users 2002-03
|
|
Universities |
HE colleges | |
|
Old |
New | ||
|
No. of institutions |
68 |
42 |
60 |
|
Students FTE |
821,069 |
638,785 |
199,590 |
|
Academic & academic related staff (FTE) |
83,896 |
33,686 |
10,149 |
|
Other employees (FTE) |
114,700 |
42,400 |
13,000 |
|
Registered external users |
295,500 |
34,000 |
35,800 |
|
Total FTE users* |
1,137,900 |
728,500 |
237,100 |
|
Professional staff (FTE) |
1,900 |
1,290 |
450 |
|
Total library staff (FTE) |
5,720 |
3,342 |
1,080 |
|
FTE students per FTE professional library staff |
432 |
495 |
444 |
|
FTE users per FTE total library staff |
199 |
218 |
220 |
*External users counted as 0.4 FTE
Information provision 2002-03
|
(£ sterling) |
Universities |
HE colleges | |
|
Old |
New | ||
|
Bookspend per FTE student (inc. A/V) |
33.47 |
23.70 |
26.03 |
|
Bookspend per FTE user |
24.15 |
20.78 |
21.91 |
|
Average cost of books (incl A/V) |
18.77* |
17.81 |
14.67 |
|
Periodicals spend per FTE student |
78.31 |
32.32 |
22.79 |
|
Periodicals spend per FTE user |
56.51 |
28.34 |
19.18 |
|
Average cost of periodicals |
105.76* |
67.32 |
54.39 |
|
Spend on electronic resources per FTE student |
13.75 |
11.75 |
10.19 |
|
Spend on electronic resources per FTE user |
9.92 |
10.30 |
8.58 |
Users = students and academic staff (bodies) and external users
* Copyright deposit items free
|
|
Universities |
HE colleges | |
|
Old |
New | ||
|
Current periodicals per FTE academic staff |
8.6 |
9.1 |
8.2 |
|
Total book issues per annum |
42,734,000 |
34,099,000 |
10,232,000 |
|
Book issues per FTE student |
52 |
53 |
51 |
|
Book issues per user |
38 |
47 |
43 |
|
FTE students per seat |
8.1 |
10.4 |
11.3 |
|
FTE students per workstation |
47 |
36 |
37 |
|
Total visits per annum (000s) |
59,754 |
43,838 |
14,704 |
|
Average visits per FTE student |
73 |
69 |
74 |
|
Inter-library borrowing per FTE academic staff |
6.6 |
8.8 |
8.3 |
Average prices of British academic books
|
Category |
1997-98* (£) |
2002-03* (£) |
|
All Humanities |
38.51 |
37.58 |
|
All Social Sciences |
49.73 |
46.14 |
|
All Applied Social Sciences |
38.03 |
40.49 |
|
All Biological Sciences |
57.88 |
55.29 |
|
All listed Pure Sciences |
54.58 |
59.42 |
|
Computer Sciences |
40.23 |
38.81 |
|
All Technology |
66.72 |
68.45 |
|
All Medicine |
44.64 |
46.73 |
|
All books |
40.92 |
41.35 |
2004 LIST online: publishing and book trade statistics
