The data reported here were submitted to the Association of College & Research Libraries over the course of more than a decade. Data were reported based on definitions provided by ACRL at the time. Those definitions may have varied from report to report in the context of significant upheaval within the library profession.
ACRL abbreviated the survey form effective with the 2011-12 year. As a result, data for many items have ceased to be tracked. Where possible, this report maps current form questions to older form questions, thus providing for continuity in trend analysis.
In addition, various librarians were responsible to interpret and apply the definitions over time. Due to these factors, there are likely inconsistencies in the reporting of certain measures over time. Nonetheless, the report as a whole provides a reasonable summary of the evolution of library services at Liberty University over the time period covered.

Survey Item
Current Survey Form
1. Titles held (as of June 30 reporting year)
1. Volumes held (as of June 30 reporting year)
4. Electronic books (included in question
2)
6. Total Library Expenditures (exclude fringe benefits)
7. Total Library Materials Expenditures
7a. One-time resource purchases
7b. Ongoing resource purchases (e.g. subscriptions, annual license fees)
7c. Collection support
2001-2002 2002-2003 2003-2004 2005-2006 2006-2007 2007-2008 2008-2009 2010-2011 2011-2012
180,069
65,798 107,874 117,610
$955,062 $1,791,019 $1,718,803 $4,502,825 $3,134,723 $4,600,056 $3,938,874 $4,930,502 $5,701,007
$318,249
183,614
$475,927
190,370 260,066
$386,970 $1,728,743
200,626
63,507
291,198
59,349
247,716
306,482
296,877
358,248
322,232
378,364
$693,170 $1,690,136 $1,291,690 $1,902,799 $2,520,240
$966,803
$1,540,081
8. Total Salaries & Wages
8a. Salaries & Wages Professional Staff
$776,957
$13,356
$888,747 $1,668,277 $1,970,432 $1,934,260 $2,111,948 $2,438,008 $2,503,397 $516,836
$339,007
$118,817
$467,312
$215,690
$479,723
$285,328
$766,229 $1,001,361 $1,104,004
$589,614 $686,498 $564,395
$1,206,998 $1,246,525
$832,507 $759,126 8b. Salaries & Wages Support Staff
8c. Salaries & Wages Student Assistants $282,573 $265,861 $329,368 $398,503 $59,012
$119,977
$93,955
$538,135
$123,696 $312,434
$443,086 $1,105,805 $471,121 $974,492 $529,646 $586,390
$497,746
$677,370 9. Other Operating Expenditures
10. Fringe benefits
11. Official designated percent (fringe benefits)
12. Expenditures from External Sources
13. Total Staff (FTE)
$34,699
48 61
$0
76
$6,027
131
$0
79
$0 $0
92 92
$613,746
20.00%
$0
105

Survey Item
13a. Professional Staff (FTE)
13b. Support Staff (FTE)
13c. Student Assistants (FTE)
14. Number of library presentations to groups
15. Number of total participants in group presentations
16. Reference Transactions
17. Initial circulations (excluding reserves)
18. Number of successful full-text article requests (journals)
19. Number of regular searches
(databases)
20. Number of federated searches
(databases)
21. Total filled requests provided to other libraries (ILL)
22. Total filled requests received from other libraries or providers (ILL)
23. Ph.D.s Awarded
24. Ph.D. Fields
25. Full-Time Instructional Faculty
26. Full-time students, undergraduate and graduate
27. Part-time time students, undergraduate and graduate
28. Full-time graduate students
2001-2002 2002-2003 2003-2004 2005-2006 2006-2007 2007-2008 2008-2009 2010-2011 2011-2012
10 12 14 25 20 26 22 22 25
14
24
11
38
21
41
37
69
22
37
32
42
32
38
36
34
44
36
49
833
20,592
1,469
5,336
0
0
173
4,859
1,303
311
95
2,673
5,733
2,222
5,825
0
1
230
5,738
1,971
333
70
2,742
5,903
69,267
3,279
2,175
7,206
1
1
218
6,864
2,186
377
165
5,910
4,641
83,401
877,204 1,037,828 1,307,908 1,545,141 7,507,205
2,375
12,983
5
1
319
9,253
3,298
812
128
5,266
4,245
81,459
2,314
14,556
2
1
354
11,054
6,553
1,138
113
5,406
5,518
3,081
15,282
137
1
341
15,813
11,255
2,263
116
6,014
6,555
3,371
15,119
267
1
424
19,313
14,291
4,609
171
8,636
9,708
94,181
3,378
11,829
5
1
30,167
26,458
7,677
158
6,854
11,349
87,826
4,015
7,763
5
2
1,401
32,093
32,003
8,732

Survey Item
29. Part-time graduate students
Older Survey Form(s)
1a. Volumes held (on June 30 previous year)
1b.i Volumes Added (Gross)
1b.ii Volumes withdrawn (since June 30 previous year)
1b. Volumes Added (Net)
3. Number of monographic volumes purchased
5a.i Electronic (deduplicated)
5a.ii Print (and other non-electronic format) serials purchased
5a. Serials Purchased
2001-2002 2002-2003 2003-2004 2005-2006 2006-2007 2007-2008 2008-2009 2010-2011 2011-2012
460 930 1,060 1,714 3,043 5,150 7,349 12,895 15,009
177,893
3,378
1,202
2,176
3,369
9,072
180,069
5,805
2,260
3,545
5,756
11,359
188,556
4,779
2,965
1,814
4,771
246,000
16,195
2,129
14,066
10,356
196,521
4,860
755
4,105
21,283
278,848
12,771
421
12,350
15,646
58,863
530
59,393
291,198
15,284
30,112
57,222
279
57,501
334,662
25,869
8,397
23,586
45,586
64,047
114
64,161
75,244
197
75,441
0 5b.i Consortial
5b.ii Freely accessible
5b.iii Print (and other format) -
Exchanges, gifts, etc.
5b.iv Government documents
1,892 766
0
5,922
15
0
0
7,468
0
0
0
32,877
67
0
28,894
0
5b. Serials Not Purchased
5. Current Serials Total
5.c. Current Serials (Purchased/Not
Purchased)
7. Microform Units
9,072
0
558,057
6
11,365
6
527,473 558,483
1,892
3,784
1,892
713,866
766
766
0
553,706
5,937
65,330
707,690
7,468
64,969
544,141
32,944
97,105
27,870
0
28,894
104,335

Survey Item
8. Government Documents not counted elsewhere
9. Computer Files
2001-2002 2002-2003 2003-2004 2005-2006 2006-2007 2007-2008 2008-2009 2010-2011 2011-2012
419 410 413 89 108 122
0
131
0
152
135 135 229 376 318 10. Manuscripts and Archives (linear ft.)
11. Cartographic Materials
362
0
330
0
12. Graphic Materials
13. Audio Materials
14. Film and Video Materials
16a. Monographs
16b. Current Serials
16c. Other Library Materials
98
3,848
1,025
$72,136
$215,262
97
4,141
1,122
$147,543
1,204
$131,306
$214,370
$30,010
$84,004
$0
5
4,474
$255,664
$0
$2,802
0
4,421
$559,480
$521,394
$53,698
$10,363
0
4,091
2,034
$594,171
2,500
$181,945
0
4,191
2,955
$367,981
0
3,869
0
5,643
3,241
$521,385
2,934
$710,074
16d. Miscellaneous Expenditures $30,851
17. Contract Binding
22. One-time electronic resource purchases
23. Ongoing electronic resource purchases
Total Electronic Materials Expenditures
$28,487
$141,848
24a. From internal library sources
24. Bibliographic Utilities, Networks, and
Consortia (internal and external)
25. Computer Hardware and Software
$250,595
$17,795
$21,053
$0
$156,560
$380,630
$37,112
$178,086
$225,023
$263,812
$762,617
$53,698
$203,741
$129,007 $1,185,520
$378,572
$3,646
$825
$79,381
$57,254
$1,168
$770,305
$5,590
$784,750
$407,975
$0
$3,305
$437,719 $295,442 $56,327 $154,845
$304,460 $527,317 $478,704
$888,182 $1,212,721 $1,118,959
$41,007 $57,254 $39,924
$993,560
$478,991
$57,254
$442,258
$39,924
$146,423
$29,055
$29,055
$270,603

Survey Item
26. Document Delivery/Interlibrary Loan
2001-2002 2002-2003 2003-2004 2005-2006 2006-2007 2007-2008 2008-2009 2010-2011 2011-2012
$6,713 $8,872 $10,316 $7,397 $31,047 $16,189 $32,430
28. Staffed Service Points
29. Weekly Public Service Hours
6
131
9
131
7
114
9
95
9
106
7
114 104
44,011 34. Total Circulation Transactions
Total Full-time Enrolled Undergraduate
Students
Total Part-time Undergraduate Students
45. Expenditures for electronic books
47. Number of virtual reference transactions
49. Number of sessions (logins) to databases or services
49.a. Number of resources for which you are reporting (sessions)
50. Number of searches (queries) in databases or services
50.a. Number of resources for which you are reporting (database searches)
51.a. Number of resources for which you are reporting (full-text articles)
52.a. Number of virtual visits to library's website
52.b. Number of virtual visits to library's catalog
Total Number of Virtual Visits
6,162
62,753
8,972
81,007
10,487
$0
1,467
102,453
15,077
102,732
21,788
120,220
13,550
6,105
2,986
4
302,860
69
485,779
84 149 278 360
393,859 1,126,924 1,398,336 2,272,892 10,478,071 26,063,799
12
4
106,030
$152,110
897
78
41
$43,479
1,826
104
121
$154,845
1,160
$306,296
1,765 1,272
641,270 2,441,624 10,401,313
163
106
14,704
6,942
278
22,490
13,563
430
106,030
0
120,001
54,472
174,473
0
251,620
85,064
336,684
53.a. Number of Collections
53.b. Size (in gigabytes)
1
405
3
1
1
9

Survey Item
53.c. Items
54.a. Number of times items accessed
54.b. Number of queries conducted
55.a. Direct cost of personnel
55.b. Direct cost of equipment, software or contracted services
56. Volumes Held Collectively [i.e.,
Withdrawn]
2001-2002 2002-2003 2003-2004 2005-2006 2006-2007 2007-2008 2008-2009 2010-2011 2011-2012
0 153 348 1,524 4,520
60,616 516,505 0
0
589
2,955
33,509
5,110
0
$0
62,067
$20,700
49,230
$22,820
0
$29,705
0
$29,184
0