CUNY libraries statistics 2024-2025

Please complete your surveys and submit login information to Shamiana Pond by February 10, 2025.

Key ACRL/IPEDS Dates

• NOW: Join the CUNY Statistics listserv
• Fall 2024: Make sure your chief librarian has an IPEDS login from your campus Institutional Research
• December 2024: ACRL/IPEDS updated libguide. 
• January 23, 2025, 10AM: Stats Drop-in Session
  • https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83717895462?pwd=BBznGs1LoBuAHrH7izaSsOz7aogwRY.1
    Meeting ID: 837 1789 5462
    Passcode: 452267
  • January 23 recording
  • Tech Services Drop-in Session, January 22
• February 10, 2025: Have your data completed and send ACRL/IPEDS logins and passwords to Shamiana Pond (shamiana.pond@cuny.edu).  
• February / March, 2025: Submit ACRL and IPEDS data (IPEDS data must read as "clean"). 
• March 20, 2025: Due date for the completion of IPEDS Screening Questions.
• February 28, 2025: The soft deadline for the ACRL Survey.

For both surveys, please report data for the period July 1, 2023-June 30, 2024.

Getting started

We strongly recommend completing ACRL first and then using that data to complete IPEDS.
Note: Video instructions from previous years still apply to the current survey.

• ACRL survey login at https://librarybenchmark.org/
• ACRL reporting changes outlined in instructions, page 6
• ACRL survey information Libguide
• ​IPEDS login
• IPEDS changes for this year -- see Table A7 Changes to the AL form
  • There are no changes to Academic Libraries (AL) for 2024-25.
  • This is final administration of this survey.
• IPEDS FAQ

Library Statistics Working Group Campus Liaisons:

* If libraries have not received their ACRL survey, they should contact the survey administrator or support at Counting Opinions: acrlsupport@countingopinions.com or 1-800-542-9847. Guidelines  include clarifications and provide some useful numbers.

We advise you to review these guidelines before entering your data online. Once you have entered data and saved it, notify Shamiana Pond and send her your survey login information.  She will compile the data for all CUNY campuses. You will be able to make changes online up until the survey closes.

Guide for ACRL/IPEDS surveys 2015-2016 (Archive)

Guide for ACRL/IPEDs surveys 2014-2015 (Archive)

Guide for ACRL/IPEDs surveys 2013-2014 (Archive)

This guide was created by the City University of New York's Libraries Statistics working group to share information with CUNY librarians about how to gather and report statistics for the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) for 2016-2017 and the IPEDS-AL.

In order to ensure consistent reporting, the Working Gruop has written these guidelines to clarify the instructions published by ACRL and IPEDS AL. As a general rule, survey respondents should follow the instructions for each question but integrate CUNY guidelines as well.

Start with the ACRL survey as that data can be used to complete IPEDS.

For both surveys, please report data for the period July 1, 2016-June 30, 2017.

***Please complete and submit login information for both surveys to Shamiana Pond by February 6, 2018 ***

We ask contacts to send Shamiana login information for both surveys to help her compile CUNY-wide results more efficiently.  We will not change any information on the surveys.