Summary of Library Statistics: New York State, 2014a

Library Typea 

Number

Total Vols.g

Prof. Staff

Other Staff

Expenditures

Salaries

Materials

Total Operating

Amount

% Total

Amount

% Total

Publicb

756 83,453,118 4,167 8,609 $1,305,330,205 $900,092,314 69% $105,244,591 8.06%

Academicc

285 119,087,700 1,347 1,165 $662,897,909 $365,853,470 55% $243,782,822 36.78%

Schoold

                 

Public

3,753 48,588,171 8,769 2,676 $275,343,430 $206,459,372 75% $32,374,309 11.76%

Nonpublic

1,236 9,907,742 1,046 NA NA NA NA NA  

Institutione

200 1,413,175 48 42 $5,912,530 $3,136,586 53% $2,625,245 44.40%

New York State Libraryf

1 2,900,987 41 53 $8,703,362 $5,512,876 63% $1,823,965 20.96%

TOTAL

6,231 265,350,893 15,418 12,545 $2,258,187,436 $1,481,054,618 66% $385,850,932 17.09%

a Does not include special libraries.
b 2014 Annual Report for Public and Association Libraries; staff positions are full-time equivalents based on a 40-hour work week. "Other" staff includes all non-librarian staff.
c Located in public and nonpublic institutions of higher education. Staff positions include both full-time and part-time staff. "Other Staff" includes graduate assistants. National Center for Education Statistics, IPEDS (Human Resources and Academic Libraries components). Note that the Academic Libraries Survey was reintegrated with IPEDS as of 2014. The way staff are counted changed when the library staff numbers were included with the Human Resources component of IPEDS.
dSchool Libraries (Public) includes charter school data except in the case of operating expenditures where it is not available. Data includes New York City. New York City was not available in the previous year. New York State Education Department, Information and Reporting Services and NY Fiscal Analysis and Research Unit, 2014-2015 School Year.
e Located in correctional, health, mental hygiene, and training facilities operated by the State of New York; New York State Library, Division of Library Development, Institution Library Resources, through November 30, 1997.
f Located in the Cultural Education Center, Empire State Plaza, Albany, New York; New York State Library.
g Includes electronic books.

NA – Data Not Available

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