Hello everyone

There was a flurry of activity at the end of May to get the UC Library statistical retun into CAUL. It has been decided by CONZUL that there will no longer be a separate collection of data for the CONZUL statistics, they will be compiled from the data collected for the CAUL statistics. Thank you to all of the staff who supplied me with the data that was required for the statistical return.

I thought I would highlight some of the statistics of interest, and I will do this over the coming weeks.

With the merger of the PSL Library with the Engineering Library this was the first return to reflect the decrease in the number of libraries, which changed from 6 to 5.

Even with the Spetember earthquake, the refurbishment of the EPS Library and the closure of the Central Library the door count still rose slightly from 1,922,836 in 2009 to 1,944,076 in 2010.

The total loans for the whole Library system decreased markedly as a result of the Central Library being closed, 2009 showed a total of 569,687 loans while in 2010 only 488,499 loans were issued.

The reserve collection also recorded a decrease from 90,746 in 2009 to only 69,117 in 2010, again the reason was the closure of the Central Library plus a lesser factor was the move to more digital resources being used within Learn.

Two areas that showed increases were –

Extraordinary expenditure, zero was recorded in 2009 however with the RFID project expenditure for 2010, the amount was $571,165.87

Expenditure on e-resources increased from $5,684,991 in 2009 to reach $6,550,252 in 2010.

I will write a further update next week
Heather