Use of the ACRLMetrics Service

9th Northumbria International Conference

University of York, EnglandJoe Matthews

August 2011

• Collections• Expenditures• Library Operations• Local Attributes

ACRLMetrics

• Academic Library Trends & Statistics

• National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES) Academic Libraries Survey

• Data from 2000 to the present

• Partner with Counting Opinions

ACRLMetrics

Designed to support libraries

• Strategic planning• Budget presentations• Benchmarking• Trend analysis• Advocacy

ACRLMetricsType of Report Functions

Table

PI report

Trend/PI

Graph/PI

Summary

Period comparisons

Summary data *

Summary of selected variable *

Summary of selected variable (range of years)

PIs sorted by PI value *

Summary data for all selected PIs

Data values for each selected time period

* = Single time period

First Screen

Choose Reports - Metrics

Customize Standard Report

Resulting Report

User Control

Not all libraries respond each year