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The following spreadsheet is divided in three images.
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Here are the column tables that identify the data on those three pages.
1 Year of ARL statistics.
2 Number of university libraries reporting.
Note that non-university libraries are excluded from these summaries.
3 Total number of current serials held in reporting
libraries.
4 Percentage change in (3) over previous year.
5 Percentage change in (3) over the entire
term.
6 Median number of current serials held in
reporting libraries.
7 Percentage change in (6) over previous year.
8 Mean number of current serials held in reporting
libraries.
9 Percentage change in (8) over previous year.
10 Percentage change in (8) over the entire term
11 Total materials budgets expended in reporting
libraries.
12 Percentage change in (11) over previous year.
13 Percentage change in (11) over the entire term
14 Mean tool materials budget expended in reporting
libraries.
15 Percentage change in (14)over previous year.
16 Percentage change in (14) over the entire term.
17 Total current periodicals budget expended in reporting
libraries.
18 Percentage change in (17) over previous year.
19 Mean total current periodicals budget expended
in reporting libraries.
20 Percentage change in (19) over previous year.
21 Total current periodicals budget expended as a
percentage of total materials budget expended.
22 Total expenditures for ARL university libraries.
23 Percentage change in (22) over previous year
24 Percentage change in (22) over the entire tenn
25 Mean total expenditures for ARL university libraries.
26 Percentage change in (25) over previous year.
27 Percentage change in (25) over the entire term.
28 Mean materials expenditures as a percentage of
mean total library expenditures
29 ALA/LMPIC periodical subscription index, domestic
periodicals. (Note that ARL stats span mid-years, i.e., 1971/2. ALA index
is given for the 2nd of each of those years.)
30 U.S. Consumer Price Index, from International Monetary
Fund statistics. (Note that ARL stats span mid-years, i.e., 1971/72. CPI
is given for the 2nd of each of those years.)
31 Percentage change in (30) over previous year.
32 Percentage change in (30) over the entire term.
33 ARL university library expenditures, if they had
grown at precisely CPI rate.
34 Total ARL university library expenditures which
would have been necessary to hold serials expenditures at the same proportion
as 1975/6.
35 Average price per current periodical, i.e., (17)
divided by (3).
36 Percentage change in (35) over previous year.