Welcome to ARL Statistics
ARL Statistics is a series of annual publications that describe the collections, expenditures, staffing, and service activities for the member libraries of the Association of Research Libraries. Statistics have been collected and published annually for the members of the Association since 1961-62. Before that, annual statistics for university libraries were collected by James Gerould, first at Minnesota and later at Princeton. These data cover the years 1907-08 through 1961-62 and are now called the Gerould statistics. The whole data series from 1908 to the present represents the oldest and most comprehensive continuing library statistical series in North America. Printed copies are available from the ARL Publications Program.
For more information, regarding the machine-readable datafiles, the WWW interactive edition housed at the Geostat Center at the University of Virginia, analysis of research library trends, and full-text of the ARL Statistics publications among other things, see: http://www.arl.org/stats/arlstat/
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