Washington DC—The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has published ARL Statistics 2009–2010 , the latest in a series of annual publications that describe the collections, staffing, expenditures, and service activities of the 125 ARL member libraries in 2009–2010. Of these, 115 were university libraries (18 in Canada and 107 in the US); the remaining 10 were public, governmental, and nonprofit research libraries (2 in Canada, 8 in the US).

The total library expenditures of all 125 member libraries in 2009–2010 was slightly more than $4.2 billion; of that total, roughly $3.2 billion was spent by the 115 university libraries and slightly more than $990 million by the 10 nonuniversity libraries.

ARL has collected and published annual statistics for its member libraries since 1961–62, expanding upon the work of James Gerould, who collected this information first at the University of Minnesota and later at Princeton University. The data he collected, covering the years 1907–08 through 1961–62, are now called the Gerould Statistics. The complete data series from 1908 through the present represents the oldest, most comprehensive, continuing library statistical series in North America.

Online access to the ARL Statistics from 2004–2005 to the present is now available through ARL Digital Publications. Please visit http://publications.arl.org/ARL_Statistics for additional information.

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ARL Statistics 2009–2010
Martha Kyrillidou, Shaneka Morris, and Gary Roebuck comps. and eds.
2011 * ISBN 1-59407-872-6 * 174 pages
$170 ($85 ARL members)

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The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of 126 research libraries in the US and Canada. 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, facilitating the emergence of new roles for research libraries, and shaping a future environment that leverages its interests with those of allied organizations. ARL is on the web at http://www.arl.org/ .

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