For immediate release:
September 22, 2009

For more information, contact:
David Green
Association of Research Libraries
202-296-2296
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ARL Publishes Supplementary Statistics 2006–2007 and 2007–2008

Washington DC—The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published the ARL Supplementary Statistics for 2006–2007 and 2007–2008, the latest in a series of annual publications that describe the collections, staffing, and expenditures for electronic resources in ARL libraries. Of these member libraries, 113 are university libraries (14 in Canada, 99 in the US); the remaining 10 are public, governmental, and private research libraries (2 in Canada, 8 in the US).

In 2006–2007 ARL libraries reported 787,625 virtual reference transactions; this increased to 1,072,452 in 2007–2008. Likewise the number of electronic books held in ARL libraries increased from 25,006,758 in 2006–2007 to 32,329,187 in 2007–2008.

For more information about the ARL Statistics or to download the data files or a PDF of the publication, please visit http://www.arl.org/stats/arlstat/. See below to order print copies of the publication.

ORDERING INFORMATION

ARL Supplementary Statistics 2006-2007
Les Bland and Martha Kyrillidou, comps. and eds.
2009 • ISBN 1-59407-841-6 • EAN 978-1-59407-841-5 • ISSN 1533-9335 • 50 pages
$135 ($65 ARL members)

ARL Supplementary Statistics 2007-2008
Les Bland and Martha Kyrillidou, comps. and eds.
2009 • ISBN 1-59407-842-4 • EAN 978-1-59407-842-2 • ISSN 1533-9335 • 54 pages
$135 ($65 ARL members)

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PDF versions are available at http://www.arl.org/stats/annualsurveys/sup/index.shtml

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of 123 research libraries in North America. Its mission is to influence the changing environment of scholarly communication and the public policies that affect research libraries and the diverse communities they serve. ARL pursues this mission by advancing the goals of its member research libraries, providing leadership in public and information policy to the scholarly and higher education communities, fostering the exchange of ideas and expertise, and shaping a future environment that leverages its interests with those of allied organizations. ARL is on the Web at http://www.arl.org/.