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Academic Library Statistics Site Index
1. Introduction
2. An Overview of the Academic Library Survey Data Compilation Today
2.1. What is an academic library?
2.2. Institutions reporting by year
2.3. "span"
2.4. "span" by Carnegie Classification
2.5. Variables in the Academic Library Survey
3. ALS Variables Main page
3.1. Eligibility Variables
(detail)
3.2. Identifying or classifying an institution
(detail)
3.2.1. Carnegie Classification Detail
3.3. Related Libraries
(detail)
3.4. Staffing Variables
(detail)
3.5. Expenditures
(detail)
3.5.1. Expenditures for Staff
3.5.2. Expenditures for Information Resources
3.5.3. Operating Expenditures
3.6. Library Collections
(detail)
3.7. Library Services
(detail)
3.8. Electronic Services
(detail)
3.9. Information Literacy
(detail)
3.10. Imputation Variables
(detail)
3.11. Status Variables
(detail)
4. Merging Variables in the Annual Academic Library Survey datasets
4.1. Abstract
4.2. Crosswalks
4.3. Variable coding
4.4. Towards principles of compiling data
4.5. Not available, not applicable, unavailable
4.6. In-band/out-of-band metadata
4.7. Removing Imputations
4.8. Variables not changed in these compilations
4.9. Small year-to-year changes in definition
4.10. Reused Variable Names
October 29, 2007
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