National Center for Education Statistics. Academic Library Statistics: United States: Staff Count - Total FTE Staff, 2012. Data-Planet™ Statistical Datasets by Conquest Systems, Inc. Dataset-ID: 017-015-007
Dataset: Presents a count of total full-time-equivalent staff at academic libraries in 2- and 4-year degree-granting postsecondary institutions in the 50 United States and Washington, DC, for the nation in total and by state and institution. The count includes librarians, defined as staff whose duties require professional education (the master's degree or its equivalent) in the theoretical and scientific aspects of librarianship; other professional staff, ie, those whose duties require education and/or training in related fields (eg, academic disciplines, archives, media, computing); other paid staff, including technical and clerical staff; and student assistants funded by any source.
The Academic Library Statistics dataset summarizes services, staff, collections, and expenditures of academic libraries in 2- and 4-year degree-granting postsecondary institutions in the 50 United States and Washington, DC. The data were collected through the Academic Libraries Survey (ALS), a voluntary survey of approximately 3,700 degree-granting postsecondary institutions conducted biennially by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) as part of its Library Statistics Program. An academic library is the library associated with a degree-granting institution of higher education and is identified by the postsecondary institution of which it is a part. An academic library is defined as providing: an organized collection of printed or other materials or a combination thereof; a staff trained to provide and interpret such materials as required to meet the informational, cultural, recreational, or educational needs of clientele; an established schedule in which services of the staff are available to clientele; and the physical facilities necessary to support such a collection, staff, and schedule. The data are intended to provide an overview of academic libraries nationwide and by state in order to enable the US to plan effectively for the development and use of postsecondary education library resources. NCES surveyed academic libraries on a three-year cycle between 1966 and 1988. Between 1988 and 1998, the ALS was a component of the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and was collected on a two-year cycle. Beginning with Fiscal Year 2000, t...