See ACRL instructions (pp. 9-15)
Question | Explanation |
40 Books [title count] (column A physical) |
Use Table 1. This is a print title count. |
40 Books [title count] (column B digital/electronic) |
See Tab 2 for instructions for retrieving an e-book title count using Alma Analytics. |
40a Books [volume count] (column A physical) |
Use Tab 3 for instructions for retrieving a volume count using Alma Analytics. Add to this number a count of any volumes, including bound serials, that do not have an item record. |
41 Databases (column B digital/electronic) |
Count CUNY and locally licensed databases, both bibliographic and full text, on your A-Z list.
DO NOT include individual titles such as the NYTimes digital or the Chronicle of Higher Education; count those as part of 43B. |
42a Media (column A physical) |
Use Table 4, physical media, which now includes non-serial microforms. Include maps here. |
42b Media (column B digital/electronic) |
Table 5 is NOT a complete list. It includes links to vendor websites which list title counts for streaming media collections. If yours isn't listed, please reach out to the vendor. Sum up title counts for collections your campus subscribes to, found on the ERAC survey.
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43a Serials titles (column A physical) |
Use Tab 6, which reflects serial titles, including microforms and a count of ceased titles. |
43b Serials titles (column B digital/electronic) |
Use See Tab 7 for instructions for retrieving an e-book title count using Alma Analytics., The count includes open access titles searchable through OneSearch. |
44 Total (physical) Calculated sum of 40, 42 & 43 |
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44 Total (electronic) Calculated sum of 40, 41, 42 & 43 |
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45 External Contributions from Consortia/Networks 45a (physical) please check box for NA/UA 45b (digital electronic) Report your campus total from Table 8 External Expenditures. |
Total print monograph bib records in Aleph (title count) to answer ACRL Q40 physical
These numbers were compiled using the following CCL in Aleph:
wow=xx and wfm=(bk or mu) not wpd=(c or h) not wfs=m not wst=suppressed or circ [title count]
College | Number of records |
CUNY-wide records (AL) | n/a |
Baruch (BB) | 283,340 |
Brooklyn (BC) | 686,802 |
BMCC (BM) | 86,975 |
Bronx (BX) | 66,071 |
CITY (CC) + DSI (DS) + SPH (PH) | 734,547 |
CUNY LAW (CL) | 24,636 |
Graduate Center (GC) | 213,612 |
Journalism (GJ) | 3,664 |
Hostos (HO) | 52,482 |
Hunter (HC) + Centro (CP) | 437,804 |
John Jay (JJ) | 183,086 |
Kingsborough (KB) | 157,488 |
Lehman (LE) | 323,246 |
LaGuardia (LG) | 88,995 |
Medgar Evers (ME) | 98,657 |
Guttman (NC) | 2.044 |
City Tech (NY) | 104,681 |
Queensborough (QB) | 110,594 |
Queens (QC) | 636,226 |
CSI (SI) | 175,538 |
York (YC) | 148,875 |
Searches run: July 2020
To retrieve the number of e-books for your campus.
Open this report in Alma analytics, 40 Column B. Digital/Electronic Books (include government documents) 43 Column B Digital/Electronic Serials.
Here is the path in Alma Analytics:
/shared/Community/Reports/Consortia/CUNY/ACRL IPEDS AL/Shortcut to 43 Column B. Digital\/Electronic Serials
Watch this video to help you navigate to this report in Alma Analytics
Find your campus numbers for e-books and adjust as you wish (you will probably want to remove the Internet Archives).
Next add this number to total e-books from the NZ: 882,000 (as of 12/16/20, see screen shot below to see how we got this number)
The total of your IZ e-books and the NZ e-books is your answer for Q40 electronic books.
In Alma, go to Analytics, Design analytics, Catalog, Community, Consortia, CUNY and open this report:
shared/Community/Reports/Consortia/CUNY
ACRL IPEDS Q40a Volume Count
Watch this video to help you navigate to this report in Alma Analytics
Report the Grand Total
If your campus prefers a different method of tracking physical volumes, please report this number instead.
Physical Media bib counts (includes microforms)
College |
Physical Media
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Non-Serial Microforms
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Microform collection codes |
Total (report this number for Q42a ) |
Baruch (BB) | 2174 | 7158 | FILM | 9,332 |
Brooklyn (BC) | 22,386 | 31,769 | MF; FMP; MICRO; MFC; MFI | 54,155 |
BMCC (BM | 2,242 | 0 | NA? | 2,242 |
Bronx CC (BX) | 2,104 | 4 | FICHE, FILM | 2,108 |
City + DSI + SPH (CC or DS or PH) | 21,355 | 5229 | MFILM, MICRO, DOCFC, DOCFL, DOCCH | 26,584 |
Law (CL) | 173 | 0 | NA? | 173 |
Grad (GC) | 2,470 | 1,325 |
MICE, MIFE RMIC, |
3,795 |
Journalism (GJ) | 95 | 0 | NA? | 95 |
Hostos (HO) | 1943 | 0 | NA | 1943 |
Hunter + Centro (HC or CP) | 8126 | 123 | MICRO (FOR EACH) | 8249 |
John Jay (JJ) | 4,579 | 3974 | FICH, FILM, SPMIC | 8,553 |
Kingsborough (KB) | 2,135 | 0 | PEMIC | 2,135 |
Lehman (LE) | 3,410 | 342 | MICRO, EDMIC | 3,752 |
LaGuardia (LG) | 4,286 | 0 | NA | 4,286 |
Medgar (ME) | 6,977 | 0? | NA | 6,977 |
Guttman (NC) | 170 | 0 | NA | 170 |
City Tech (NY) | 4,745 | 8 | MICRO | 4,753 |
Queensborough (QB) | 1,763 | 3 | MICRO | 1,763 |
Queens (QC) | 24,250 | 37,907 | DFICHE, 1RFICHE, CARD, FICHE, FILM, PFICH, PFILM, PPRIN | 62,157 |
CSI (SI) | 3270 | 210 | MF, FICHE | 3480 |
YORK (YC) | 180 | 9 | MICRO | 189 |
wow=xx and wpd=(a or d or f or g or k or m or s or v) not WST=SUPPRESSED plus a count of microform based on collection codes each campus provided:
For example: (wow=xx and wcl=mfilm or micro or docch or docfc not wfm=se not wpd=h) or (wow=xx and wpd=h not wcl=mfilm or micro or docch or docfc not wfm=se) not wst=suppressed
[(non-serial non-microform bibs with microform holdings) + (non-serial microform bibs with non-microform holding)]
*Excludes suppressed bibs -- If you wish to include them, use the CCL search above minus the "not wst=suppressed"
*As of July 2020
Alexander Street Press: Download "bibliography" for each collection to get a list of titles or use the number found in the brochure etc. :A complete list of audio and video collections can be found here: http://alexanderstreet.com/AZtextlist. (Video collection only: http://alexanderstreet.com/allVideoTextLis)
DRAM: detailed here: http://www.dramonline.org/page/collection-development
Films on Demand -- this page lists title counts for different academic collections.
Kanopy: If using PDA/DDA, only include titles you have licensed
Naxos Music Library: 157,916-- found here: https://www.naxosmusiclibrary.com/home.asp
Serial records in Aleph: wow=xx and wfm=se not wpd=c not wst=suppressed
College |
Print serials |
Baruch (BB) | 6,182 |
Brooklyn (BC) | 19,057 |
BMCC (BM) | 422 |
Bronx (BX) | 548 |
City (CC) + DSI (DS) + SPH (PH) | 21,883 |
Law (CL) | 762 |
Grad (GC) | 2,060 |
Journalism (GJ) | 99 |
Hostos (HO) | 172 |
Hunter (HC) + Centro (CP) | 3,748 |
John Jay (JJ) | 7,581 |
Kingsborough (KB) | 1,702 |
Lehman (LE) | 7,357 |
LaGuardia (LG) | 1,104 |
Medgar (ME) | 1,026 |
Guttman (NC) | 29 |
City Tech (NY) | 1,458 |
Queensborough (QB) | 1,107 |
Queens (QC) | 14,608 |
CSI (SI) | 1,789 |
York (YC) | 1,108 |
wow=xx and wfm=se not wpd=c not wst=suppressed
*Command search in Aleph July 2020
*Excludes suppressed bibs
*Includes serial microforms
*Count only once if title is available in both print and microforms.
Open this report in Alma analytics, 40 Column B. Digital/Electronic Books (include government documents) 43 Column B Digital/Electronic Serials.
Here is the path in Alma Analytics:
/shared/Community/Reports/Consortia/CUNY/ACRL IPEDS AL/Shortcut to 43 Column B. Digital\/Electronic Serials
Watch this video to help you navigate to this report in Alma Analytics
Find your campus numbers for e-journals and adjust if you wish.
Next add this number to total e-journals from the NZ: 185,000 (as of 12/16/20, see screen shot below to see how we got this number)
The total of your IZ e-journals and the NZ e-journals is your answer for Q43 electronic serials/journals.
Below is a screenshot that shows how we retrieved the NZ number for all campuses:
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This number is for FY 2019-20. It answers Q45b (digital) on the ACRL survey. This number is NOT included in the total for library collection expenditures.
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