{"id":1728,"date":"2015-11-03T22:08:14","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T22:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hsli.org\/?p=1728"},"modified":"2015-11-03T22:08:14","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T22:08:14","slug":"acrl-annual-survey-now-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hsli.org\/newsletter\/acrl-annual-survey-now-open\/","title":{"rendered":"ACRL Annual Survey Now Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ACRL 2015 Annual Survey is now open. Academic libraries of all types are invited to complete it. The survey focuses on library staffing, collections, and resource-sharing. The data submitted in the survey should come from an institution&#8217;s last full fiscal year that ended before October 1, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Those administering the survey have three specific goals.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To use survey responses to help complete the Academic Libraries part of the IPEDS (Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System) survey<\/li>\n<li>To make the responses to the ACRL survey available a few months after the survey period comes to a close; the Academic Libraries part of the IPEDS survey won&#8217;t be available for a year to a year-and-a-half after the ACRL survey period ends<\/li>\n<li>To begin reusing certain criteria that were part of the biennial NCES Academy Library Survey, which has not been administered since 2012<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some of the areas that the ACRL Annual Survey covers include the following.<\/p>\n<p><u>Staffing Types, FTEs and Expenses<\/u>&#8211;position classifications (librarian, other professional staff, other paid staff, student assistant), salaries and wages, number of hours worked per week<\/p>\n<p><u>Expenses (Other Than Staff)<\/u>&#8211;materials\/service cost, operations and maintenance expenses<\/p>\n<p><u>Library Collections<\/u>&#8211;physical books (including government documents and serial backfiles), digital\/electronic books (including government documents), serial titles, databases, physical media, digital\/electronic media<\/p>\n<p><u>Library Consortia<\/u>&#8211;consortium members sharing all resources, consortium members sharing partial resources (digital\/electronic collection, digital\/electronic circulation), institutional repositories<\/p>\n<p><u>Library Services<\/u>&#8211;physical library circulation and usage, digital\/electronic library circulation and usage, e-book usage, e-journal usage, information services to individuals, virtual reference services, information services to groups, number of hours open in a typical academic session, gate counts, total interlibrary loans and documents provided to other libraries, total interlibrary loans and documents received<\/p>\n<p>The deadline for completing the survey is\u00a0<strong>Thursday, April\u00a0<\/strong>16. To log in to the survey, go\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/acrl.countingopinions.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. One can also access instructions, a worksheet, and trend questions from the log-in page.<\/p>\n<p>To look at IPEDS data from past years, go\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nces.ed.gov\/ipeds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ACRL 2015 Annual Survey is now open. Academic libraries of all types are invited to complete it. The survey focuses on library staffing, collections, and resource-sharing. The data submitted in the survey should come from an institution&#8217;s last full fiscal year that ended before October 1, 2015. 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