2007 ACADEMIC LIBRARIES SURVEY
Institution: Clarion University of Pennsylvania
Address: 840 Wood Street, Clarion, PA 16214

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

SURVEY ELIGIBILITY
Please answer the following questions to determine if you need to complete this survey:
YES/NO
a.

b.
c.
d.
e.

Do you have an organized collection of printed or other materials
or a combination thereof?
Do you have paid staff trained to provide and interpret such
materials as required to meet the informational, cultural,
recreational, or educational needs of clientele?
Do you have an established schedule in which services of the
staff are available to clientele?
Does the library have the physical facilities necessary to support
such a collection, staff, and schedule?
Do you provide financial support to another library?

Yes

Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes

2007 ACADEMIC LIBRARIES SURVEY
Institution: Clarion University of Pennsylvania

Identification No:

PART A - NUMBER OF PUBLIC SERVICE OUTLETS, FISCAL YEAR 2007
Line No.
01

Item
Branch and independent libraries - Exclude main or central
library

Number
1

PART B - LIBRARY STAFF, FALL 2007 AND SALARIES/WAGES, FY 2007
(Exclude maintenance and custodial staff, volunteers and contributed services staff)
NOTE: Report FTE data to two decimals.
FALL 2007

Line No.

02
03
04
05
06
07
08a
08b

FY 2007
Salaries and
wages (whole
dollars only)
(column 2)

Number of full-time
equivalents (FTEs)
(column 1)

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

7.50
2.00

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)

36.41
Yes

9.50
14.72
12.19

$774,480
$576,638
$135,580
$1,486,698
(Yes/No)
$503,854

PART C - LIBRARY EXPENDITURES, FISCAL YEAR 2007
NOTE: See instructions for exclusions and definitions

Line No.
09

10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21

Amount (whole
dollars only)
$1,486,698

Total salaries and wages (equal to line 07, column 2)
Information resources:
One-time purchases of books, serial backfiles and other
materials
Electronic
Audiovisual
Ongoing commitments to serial subscriptions
Electronic serials
Other information resources:
Document delivery/interlibrary loan
Preservation
Other expenditures for information resources
Operating expenditures:
Computer hardware and software (include maintenance)
Bibliographic utilities, networks and consortia
All other operating expenditures
TOTAL EXPENDITURES (Sum lines 09, 10, 13, 15 through 20)

$206,127
$14,020
$28,391
$403,285
$181,546
$9,897
$11,146
$0
$8,952
$81,579
$78,419
$2,286,103

PART D - LIBRARY COLLECTIONS, FISCAL YEAR 2007
Yes/No

Is the library collection entirely electronic?

Line No.
22
23
24
25
26
27

Collections
Books, serial backfiles and other paper materials (include
governmnet documents)
E-Books
Microforms
Audiovisual materials
Current serial titles
Electronic reference sources and aggregation services

Added during the
Fiscal Year

Held at end of
Fiscal Year

5743
16369
75
248
327
9

447984
16369
1504813
7360
20591
102

PART E - LIBRARY SERVICES, FISCAL YEAR 2007
Note: See intstructions for exclusions and definitions.
Line No.
28a
28b
29
30
31
32
33
34a
34b
35
36

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

Number
1,714
2,209
3,923
1297
1133
0
2,430
63189
12417
130
1209

2007 ACADEMIC LIBRARIES SURVEY
Institution: Clarion University of Pennsylvania

Identification No:

PART F - LIBRARY SERVICES, TYPICAL WEEK, FALL 2007
NOTE: See instructions for exclusions and definitions

Line No.
37
38
39

Number in a
typical week

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

92
11228
603

PART G - ELECTRONIC SERVICES
Please respond to each item by selecting "Yes" or "No". If answering for more than one library, select "Yes", 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 students

Yes/No
Yes
Yes
Yes
No

PART H - INFORMATION LITERACY, FISCAL YEAR 2007
Note: See instructions for definition. Please respond to each item by selecting "Yes " or "No".
Line No.
44
45
46

Services
Does your institution have the following, or has it done the following?
A definition of information literacy or of an information literate student
Incorporated information literacy in the institution's mission
Incorporated information literacy in the institution's strategic plan. If no, select "No" and skip lines 46a and 46b.
46a An institution-wide committee to implement the strategic plan for information literacy
46b The strategic plan formally recognizes the library's role in information literacy instruction

Yes/No
No
No
No