This document presents data that describe collections, expenditures, personnel, and services in 65 medical libraries at Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member institutions throughout North America. In 2006-2007, the reporting health sciences libraries held a median of 244,188 volumes, spent a total of $244,188,020, and employed 2,395 FTE staff. Expenditures for library materials and staff made up the largest portion of total expenditures, at 47% and 41% respectively. Respondents reported spending a total of $75,592.753 for electronic materials, or a median of 63% of their total materials budgets. This includes a total of $71,413,063 for ongoing e-resource purchases. List of ARL Member Libraries as of June 1, 2008 is appended. [For "ARL Academic Health Sciences Library Statistics, 2005-06," see ED499290.]

Presented herein are data that describe collections, expenditures, personnel, and services in 65 medical libraries at Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member institutions throughout North America. In 2005-06, the reporting health sciences libraries held a median of 245,212 volumes, spent a total of $239,944,918, and employed 2,524 FTE staff. Expenditures for materials and staff accounted for the bulk of total expenditures, at 46% and 41% respectively. Respondents reported spending a total of $51,689,469 for electronic materials, or a median of 54.29% of their total materials budgets. This includes a total of $47,179,215 for electronic serials. List of ARL Member Libraries as of June 1, 2007 is appended. (Contains 6 tables.) [For "ARL Academic Health Sciences Library Statistics, 2004-05," see ED498304.].

This document presents data that describe collections, expenditures, personnel, and services in 65 medical libraries at Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member institutions throughout North America. In 2006-2007, the reporting health sciences libraries held a median of 244,188 volumes, spent a total of $244,188,020, and employed 2,395 FTE staff. Expenditures for library materials and staff made up the largest portion of total expenditures, at 47% and 41% respectively. Respondents reported spending a total of $75,592.753 for electronic materials, or a median of 63% of their total materials budgets. This includes a total of $71,413,063 for ongoing e-resource purchases. List of ARL Member Libraries as of June 1, 2008 is appended. [For "ARL Academic Health Sciences Library Statistics, 2005-06," see ED499290.].

This document presents data that describe collections, expenditures, personnel, and services in 64 medical libraries at Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member institutions throughout North America. In 2007-2008, the reporting health sciences libraries held a median of 240,955 volumes, spent a total of $240,019,298, and employed 2,304 full-time equivalent staff. Expenditures for library materials and staff made up the largest portion of total expenditures, at 48.61% and 42.06% respectively. Respondents reported spending a total of $81,986,136 for electronic materials, or a median of 76% of their total materials budgets. This includes a total of $76,921,558 for ongoing e-resource purchases. A list of ARL Member Libraries as of June 1, 2009 is provided. [For "ARL Academic Health Sciences Library Statistics, 2006-2007," see ED503843.].

This report contains the results of the Association of Research Libraries' survey of academic Health Sciences libraries for 2003-04. Data are presented on collections, expenditures, and personnel and public services. Out of 113 ARL university libraries, 66 responded to this survey. Health Sciences libraries reported median values of 235,225 volumes held and 4,676 gross volumes added. The full-time equivalent of 2,550 staff were employed by these libraries during the year. Responding libraries reported total expenditures of $224,697,410. Library materials made up the largest portion of that total, with 43.47% of aggregated expenses falling under that category. Health Sciences libraries reported a total of $34,135,193 on electronic materials, or a median of 36.05% of their total materials budgets. This includes a total of $32,473,238 on electronic serials. Includes appendix: ARL Member Libraries as of January 1, 2005. (Contains 10 tables, 1 figure, and 2 footnotes.) [For "ARL Academic Health Sciences Library Statistics, 2002-03," see ED498303.].