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