2013 ACADEMIC LIBRARIES SURVEY
Identification No:
Name of Respondent: Terry S. Latour
Title: Dean of Libraries
Phone Number: 814-393-1931

Institution: Clarion University of Pennsylvania
Address: 840 Wood Street, Clarion, PA 16214

Please answer the following questions:
a.
b.

SURVEY ELIGIBILITY

Yes

Do your total library expenditures exceed $10,000?
Do you have an organized collection of printed or other
materials or a combination thereof?
Do you have paid, trained library staff to provide and
interpret library materials to meet the informational,
cultural, recreational, or educational needs of clientele?
Do you have established hours of operation during which
paid, trained staff are available to meet the informational
service needs of clientele?
Does the library have the physical facilities necessary to
support such a collection, staff, and schedule?

c.

d.

e.

YES/NO

Yes

Yes

Yes
Yes

PART A - NUMBER OF PUBLIC SERVICE OUTLETS, FISCAL YEAR 2013
Line No.
01

Item
Branch and independent libraries - Exclude main or central library

Number
One

PART B - LIBRARY STAFF, FALL 2013

(Exclude maintenance and custodial staff, volunteers and contributed services staff)
NOTE: Report FTE data to two decimals.
Line No.
02
03
04

Staff
Librarians
Other Professional Staff
Total librarians and other professional staff (Sum of lines 2
and 3)
All other paid staff (except student assistants)
Student assistants from all funding sources
Total full-time equivalent (FTE) staff (Sum of lines 4 to 6)
Are employee fringe benefits paid from the library
budget?
If no, skip to Part C, line 10.
Employee fringe benefits (if paid from library budget)

05
06
07
08a

08b

Number of full-time
equivalents (FTEs)
9.00
2.00

Salaries and
wages (whole
dollars only)
$675,611
$209,045

11.00
12.16
8.07
31.23

$884,656
$589,766
$114,050
$1,588,472

Yes

(Yes/No)

$692,322

PART C - LIBRARY EXPENDITURES, FISCAL YEAR 2013
NOTE: See instructions for definitions

Line No.
09
10
11
12
13
14

Total salaries and wages
Information resources:
Books, serial backfiles and other materials (one-time
purchases)
Electronic
Audiovisual
Current serial subscriptions (ongoing commitments)
Electronic serials
Other information resources:
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Amount (whole
dollars only)
$1,588,472
$76,229
$49,352
$2,134
$498,433
$405,855

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16
17
18

Document delivery/interlibrary loan
Preservation
Other expenditures for information resources
Operating expenditures:
Computer hardware and software (include maintenance)

19
20
21

Bibliographic utilities, networks and consortia
All other operating expenditures
TOTAL EXPENDITURES (Sum lines 09, 10, 13, 15 through 20)

$14,173
$3,352
$10,844

$20,046
$69,707
$46,888
$2,328,144

PART D - LIBRARY COLLECTIONS, FISCAL YEAR 2013
Line No.
22

Added during the
Fiscal Year

Collections
Books, serial backfiles and other paper materials (include
government documents)
E-Books
Microforms
Audiovisual materials
Is the library collection entirely electronic?
No

23
24
25
26

Held at end of
Fiscal Year

2373
105712
3
12115

446431
141841
1504926
19924

PART E - LIBRARY SERVICES, FISCAL YEAR 2013
Note: See instructions for definitions.

Line No.
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37

Number

Services
Interlibrary loans provided to other libraries:
Returnable
Non-returnable
Total provided (sum lines 27 and 28)
Interlibrary loans received from other libraries:
Returnable
Non-returnable
Documents delivered from commercial services
Total provided (sum lines 30, 31, and 32)
Circulation:
General circulation transactions
Reserve circulation transactions
Information services to groups:
Number of presentations
Total attendance at all presentations

2,524
1,762
4,286
1153
1101
2
2,256
112842
4423
134
2791

PART F - LIBRARY SERVICES, TYPICAL WEEK, FALL 2013
NOTE: See instructions for definitions

Line No.
38
39

Number in a
typical week

Services

93
8633

Number of weekly public service hours
Gate count in a typical week

PART G - ELECTRONIC SERVICES, FISCAL YEAR 2013

Please respond to each item by selecting "Y" or "N". If answering for more than one library, select "Y", if at least one has the service.
Line No.
40
41
42
43

Services
Does your library provide the following?
Documents digitized by the library staff
Library reference service by e-mail or the Web
Technology to assist patrons with disabilities (e.g., TDD,
specially equipped work stations)
Electronic theses and dissertations produced by your

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Yes/No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
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PART H - INFORMATION LITERACY, FISCAL YEAR 2013
NOTE: See instructions for definitions

Line No.
44
45

Yes/No
Has your postsecondary institution articulated student learning/student success outcomes? If no,
select "N" and skip 46
Is information literacy incorporated in the institution's student learning/success outcomes?

Yes
Yes

PART I - VIRTUAL REFERENCE, FISCAL YEAR 2013
NOTE: See instructions for definitions

Line No.
46

47
48
49
50

Does your library support virtual reference services?
If no, skip remaining questions
If yes, does your library utilize any of the following and does it collect usage statistics from any of
the virtual reference utilities?
E-mail reference
Chat reference, commercial service
Chat reference, instant messaging applications
Short message service (SMS) or text messaging

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Yes/No
Yes

Yes
No
Yes
Yes

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