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CUNY libraries statistics 2022-2023

ACRL Library Collections

Library Collections

See ACRL instructions (pp. 16-22)

Question Explanation

40A Books -physical (title count)

 

This is a print title count.

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Path in Alma analytics. Location/Shared Folders /Community /Reports/Consortia/CUNY/ACRL IPEDS AL

The report is called: ACRL IPEDS Q40A Physical Books [title count]

40B Books- electronic

See Tab 1 for instructions for retrieving an e-book title by doing an Advanced Search in ALMA 

Subtract from this total Internet Archives e-books, listed as an electronic collection.

40a Books - physical

(volume count)

This is a print volume count.

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Path in Alma analytics: Location/Shared Folders /Community /Reports/Consortia/CUNY/ACRL IPEDS AL Q40a Volume count

41 Databases (column B digital/electronic)

Count CUNY and locally licensed databases, both bibliographic and full text, on your A-Z list.

  • Include e-book collections
  • Include NOVELNYdatabases.
  • Include databases of open access book and journals if you link to them on your AZ list and they are discoverable through OneSearch (e.g.Directory of Open Access Journals, PLoS)

DO NOT include individual titles such as the NYTimes digital or the Chronicle of Higher Education; count those as part of 43B.

There is not a report in CUNY's ACRL analytics folder. However, you can find reports in Alma analytics but might will want to modify them because they include multiple years of the same title -- Springer Physics and Astronomy ebooks has a line for each year 2009-2013. It is probably easier to adjust from last year's number.  

42A Media (physical)

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Path in Alma analytics: Location/Shared Folders /Community /Reports/Consortia/CUNY/ACRL IPEDS AL Q42A Media - Physical

42B Media  (digital/electronic)

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Path in Alma analytics: Location/Shared Folders /Community /Reports/Consortia/CUNY/ACRL IPEDS AL Q40B Media - Digital / Electronic. -- this will include AVON and other media collections that have been turned on in your IZ

In addition, Tab 2 includes title counts for different vendors whose collections may not be activated in Alma. It 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. 

  • Only include titles that have been purchased or leased by the library. 
  • Do not include full title count for Kanopy or other PDA/DDA collections--only count titles for which a lease has been triggered.
  • For audio collections, do not count tracks, count titles only.
43A Serials Physical

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Path in Alma analytics: Location/Shared Folders /Community /Reports/Consortia/CUNY/ACRL IPEDS AL Q43A Physical Serials

43B Serials digital/electronic

 See Tab 3 for instructions to obtain digital serials with an Advanced Search in ALMA., The count includes open access titles searchable through OneSearch. 

44 . Total Physical Collection and Total Digital/Electronic Collection

These lines will automatically be calculated for you.

Do an an advanced search in ALMA to retrieve the number of e-books for your campus.

Search the following Resource Types:  Book - Digital, Book - Electronic, Atlas Electronic, Manuscripts - Electronic, Notated music - Electronic. (Picture Below) Run the search and change the Search Scope to Combined results to display results for E-Books in the Institution  Zone and the Network Zone. (Search image BELOW)

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Find your campus numbers for e-books and adjust as you wish (you will probably want to remove the Internet Archives).

Alma advanced search screen grab

Title counts for streaming media collections listed on ERAC survey 2021-22.  Please also include streaming media collections not included here if you subscribe.

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

Do an advanced search in ALMA to retrieve the number of Digital/Electronic Serials for your campus.

Search the following Resource Types:  Journal (Ceased publication) - Electronic , Journal - Digital, Journal - Electronic, Other Serial (Ceased publication), Other Serial - Electronic, Newspaper (Ceased publication). Newspaper - Electronic. (Picture Below) Run the search and change the Search Scope to Combined results to display results for Digital/Electronic Serials in the Institution  Zone and the Network Zone. 

Watch is video to help you navigate the Advanced Search in ALMA. 

Find your campus numbers for e-journals and adjust if you wish.

Screenshot of an ALMA Advanced search screen.

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