Assessment: Statistics & Reports
Kelvin Smith Library collects a wide variety of statistics each year for the purpose of reporting to the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) as well as a number of other external agencies. The statistics are also used by the administration of the library and by the university administration for the purposes of evidence-based decision making and planning.
Until the Spring of 2006, KSL statistics were widely dispersed in the library departments, except those that were needed for ARL or some other special purpose. This site is intended to gather into one place for easy access as much of this dispersed data as possible.
Here we provide a collection of PDF documents generated from Excel spreadsheets and in some cases a departmental report for fiscal year (FY) 2006. When possible, the statistics show data collected from previous years. In some cases, only the most recent year (FY06) was available.
As part of the ongoing assessment/statistics effort, in the future some of these statistics will be generated by the library's online library system and will be presented as an interactive, dynamic web site. Reports and statistics that cannot be generated automatically will continue to be collected and posted here in PDF.
Glossary of Terms
ARL Statistics
Circulation/Resource Sharing Statistics
Reference & Instruction
Departmental Statistics
Electronic Resources Statistics