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UPDATE ON STATISTICS SOURCES

Several people have written about the article on academic library statistics that appeared in CirRL News, July/August 1983, pp.221,224-25, and have recommended additional statistical sources.

E.J. Josey wrote from the New York State Library about a publication he edits with Alice L. Britenbaker, A Directory of College and University Libraries in New York State. Pages 127-220 are statistical tables covering 266 academic libraries. The most recent edition available is the 14th (1981) with statistical data for FY 1980. The 1982 edition is now at the printers and can be ordered from the New York State Library, Library Development, Albany, NY 12230. The ISSN is 0070-5276.

James O. Wallace wrote from the Texas Library Association that the Texas State Library has published Texas Academic Library Statistics since

1977. The current issue contains statistics for 1981-82 for 142 institutions, both public and private. The ISSN is 0276-458X.

Claude Bonnelly of the University of Laval wrote that the Library Subcommittee of the Conference of Rectors and Principals of Quebec Universities created in 1977 a Statistics Task Force of which he is currently president. The Task Force designed a questionnaire which was used by the 18 libraries for the first time in 1979-80. Since then the questionnaire has been distributed annually. Recently, Statistics Canada has agreed to cooperate in the compilation and publication of this data. A history of this project is given in a paper which Bonnelly presented at the 1982 IFLA meeting in Montreal entitled, “Standardization of Statistics: The Experience of the Quebec University Libraries.” For more information, contact Claude Bonnelly, Assistant Chief Librarian, University of Laval, Quebec, Canada G1K 7P4.

The American Association of Law Libraries has for many years published statistics on law school libraries in their Law Library Journal. The most recent data published was for 1979-80 in volume 74, number 2 (Spring 1981). Since then there has been discussion of publishing the data somewhere else, though it would appear that the most recent decision is to continue to publish it in the Law Library Journal. Data for 1981-82 has been submitted to the Journal but it is not known when or if it will be published. For further information, contact the National Statistics Coordinator of the AALL, David Thomas, Law Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602.

Pat Bush, management librarian at the Northwestern University Library, mentioned that the College and University Business Librarians Round Table of the Special Libraries Association publishes statistics on academic business libraries. The most recent edition of College and University Business Library Statistics is the fourth and covers 1977-78 and 1978-79. Requests for copies should be made to the editor, Judith Truelson, in the Business Library at the University of Southern California. A new edition to cover 1979-80 and 1980-81 is in the works and should be published by the end of the year. Requests for information about the 5th edition should go to the editors, Tracey Miller and Karen Sternheim, of the Graduate School of Management Library at UCLA.

A phone call to Richard Beazley of the National Center for Education Statistics elicited the information that the computer tapes for the 1981-82 survey of college and university libraries should be available shortly, while the printed version (Library Statistics of Colleges and Universities) should be out before the beginning of 1984. Please note the new address for NCES: Brown Building, 400 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, DC 20202. Richard Beazley can be reached at (202) 254- 7351.—Sandy Whiteley, ACRL Program Officer, 50 E. Huron St., Chicago, IL 60611. ■ ■