Academic Libraries: 1996. E.D. TABS.

Based on information from the 1996-97 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) Academic Libraries survey, this document presents statistics on libraries in U.S. higher education institutions. Specifically, data are provided on: circulation and interlibrary loan transactions; public service hours; number served, number of reference transactions, and information service to groups; number of books, bound serials, and bound government documents held at the end of the year, and number of libraries by number of volumes; number of units and linear feet held at the end of the year and added during the year; number of unduplicated titles held at the end of the year; number of unduplicated titles added during the year; number and percentage of FTE (full-time equivalent) staff; total operating expenditures and number of libraries by category of total operating expenditures; library operating expenditures by object of expenditure, and salaries as a percentage of total operating expenditures; operating expenditures for information resources, equipment, and other selected expenditures by category; percentage of institutions with selected electronic services; and circulation, number of books and bound serials volumes held at the end of the year/added during the year, total staff, and expenditures per FTE student. An introductory section highlights selected results and summarizes the methodology. A copy of the questionnaire is included. (MES)