2016 Annual Questionnaire Instructions PART III LIBRARY & I.T.

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1 2016 Annual Questionnaire PART III LIBRARY & I.T. Copyright 2016 American Bar Association

2 GENERAL LIBRARY INFORMATION Provide the full name of the director, including the law school mailing address, city, state, zip code, telephone and fax phone numbers, and work address. Provide the first and last name, employee title, and contact information for the person to whom enquiries regarding the Questionnaire should be directed. Also include the ending month of the library fiscal year. Page 2 of 8

3 2016 ABA Annual Questionnaire PART III LIBRARY & I.T. SECTION 1-PERSONNEL and Definitions 1-3 Provide the number of various full-time/part-time personnel. Full-time equivalency should be computed according to whatever length of work week is in effect at the reporting institution. Show to one decimal place. Librarians are those individuals doing work that requires professional education (the master's degree in library science, the J.D. degree, or their equivalent) in the theoretical aspects of librarianship or law. Other Professional Staff includes all persons, other than librarians and information technology staff, holding professional positions in the library (e.g. financial, human resources). 4. Indicate the number of full-time librarians who do not teach or hold faculty rank as of October 3, This question should be completed in consultation with the individual at the law school responsible for completing Part V Profiles and determining the teaching and faculty status of the individual librarians. Full- time librarians included in Part V Profiles should not be counted in this section. Do not double count full-time librarians in this section. In all cases, whether reporting non-teaching/non-faculty administrators (Part I), non-teaching/non-faculty librarians (Part III), or employees who teach/hold faculty rank (Part V), report a person once-and-only-once. Do not enter a person in more than one Part. The Questionnaire collects race/ethnicity information in accordance with the guidance issued by the Department of Education and used by the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). For more information on the reporting categories, category definitions, and the transitional aspects of the new IPEDS reporting system, see resources for implementing changes to race/ethnicity and definitions for new race and ethnicity categories. Use the following definitions for ethnic categories: Hispanics of any race: A person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race. American Indian or Alaska Native: A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North America and who maintains cultural identification through tribal affiliation or community recognition. Page 3 of 8

4 Asian: A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian Subcontinent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam. Black or African American: racial groups of Africa. A person having origins in any of the black Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander: A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands. Two or more races: The category used to report a non-hispanic person who selects two or more of the other racial categories Nonresident alien: A person who is not a citizen or national of the United States and who is in this country on a visa or temporary basis and does not have the right to remain indefinitely. Note: Nonresident aliens are to be reported separately in the places provided, rather than in any of the racial/ethnic categories described above. Race/Ethnicity Unknown: The category used to report persons whose race and ethnicity are not known. White: A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa. Page 4 of 8

5 SECTION 2 HOURS OF LIBRARY OPERATION & LIBRARY SERVICE 5. a-c Number of hours per week the library is open (Regular Schedule/Abbreviated Schedule): If more than one abbreviated schedule exists, report the hours for the most common or typical abbreviated schedule. 7. Report here interlibrary loan requests (formal or informal) sent to other libraries by law library staff. If your library is part of a multi-institution network that allows law faculty and students to place their own interlibrary loan requests with other libraries, you may report those figures here as well, noting that fact in the comments. You may also report borrowing requests sent by library staff (or law faculty and students) to other libraries on your home campus, if it is possible to do so, noting that fact (and the quantity) in the comments. Page 5 of 8

6 2016 ABA Annual Questionnaire PART III LIBRARY & I.T. SECTION 3 LIBRARY PHYSICAL FACILITIES 8. Include all space under control of the library. For example, a computer lab that is operated by the library but outside of the library s secured area should still be counted as library space. Page 6 of 8

7 SECTION 4 - LIBRARY OPERATIONS EXPENDITURES (previously under Part VI-Fiscal-2011 AQ) Provide the information as requested and please be careful to avoid double counting. This section should be completed by the library director. Note, be sure that the telephone, copying, and supplies included in the library section are not included (double counted) elsewhere in the fiscal report. Do not include any salaries in this section. Expenditures included here should not also be included in the general law school expenditure section. This section should not include expenditures made by the law school to its parent institution for library services provided. 11. Non-print serial subscriptions include DVDs and CD-ROMs. 12. Non-print monographs include DVDs, CD-ROMs, audio and video. 13. Electronic resources include expenditures made to vendors, consortiums or the university library for either ownership of or licensed access to web-based resources. Web-based resources include databases, aggregators, electronic books, and electronic journals, such as BNA web products, CALI, Journal of International Arbitration, LegalTrac, Lexis/Nexis, LSN, MOML, NetLibrary, and Westlaw. Do not include expenses for library collection management applications. 14. Interlibrary Loan & Document Delivery Expenses include payments for copyright permission. 17. Library Collection Management Applications include OCLC, tools and applications related to the integrated library system such as Marcive, Serials Solutions, Illiad, TDnet. Do not include hardware. 19. Library Equipment includes expenditures for purchase, rental, repair, and maintenance. Page 7 of 8

8 SECTION 5 COMMENTS 26. Include here any descriptive information or comments you wish to make regarding the data entered in Part III of this Questionnaire. Page 8 of 8