March 29, 2016

 

Question

 

Kristen Stehel (UT)

 

Hi all,

 

Based on your most current state library data, what percentage of collection expenditures do your libraries spend on electronic materials/digital units?

 

In Utah, 2015 data shows 17% of collection expenditures spent on electronic materials/digital units.

 

•             17% on e-materials/ digital units

•             23% on other materials

•             60% on print materials

 

I would really appreciate anyone that could contribute to support my case study.

 

Thanks!

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SDC Comments

 

Patrick Bodily (ID)

 

Kristen,

 

Based on our 2015 data, Idaho spent:

66.5% on Print materials

22% on Electronic Materials

11.5% on other Materials

 

Hope that helps,

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Kristen Stehel (UT)

 

Here is a more accurate count:

 

•             17.2% on e-materials/ digital units

•             23.5% on other materials

•             60.3% on print materials

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Jamie Mott (IL)

 

For Illinois, based on our FY2015 data:

25.28% electronic

56.91% print

17.81% other

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Jamie McCanless (WI)

 

I am still collecting 2015 data but don’t anticipate large shifts in percentage:

 

	Electronic Materials	Other Material	Print Materials
2015	9.6%	23.9%	66.4%
2014	13.4%	23.0%	63.6%
2013	8.5%	24.4%	67.1%

 

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Kristen Stehel (UT)

 

I would also be helpful to include 2013-2015, sorry I didn't mention that before.

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Thomas Ivie (WY)

 

2015

Electronic Materials        Other Material  Print Materials

 

* 10.7%           22.7%           66.6%

 

*Wyoming State Library pays for 78 databases including 3M, OneClick, Zinio, etc.

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Patrick Bodily (ID)

 

Kristen,

Here’s our data for 2013-2015:

 

             Print Materials                  Electronic Materials               Other

2015       66.5%                                    22%                                       11.5%

2014       68.7%                                    19.8%                                    11.5%

2013       74.8%                                    11.9%                                    13.3%

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Sam Shaw (NE)

 

Nebraska:

 

 

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Joe Manion (MN)

 

For Minnesota, 2014…

Print                     56%

Electronic            26%

Other                   18%

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Jay Bank (KY)

 

Hi Kristen –

 

I just uploaded the new Stat Report for Kentucky, this morning --http://kdla.ky.gov/librarians/plssd/Pages/LibraryStatistics.aspx.

 

Our figures:

 

Fiscal Year Ending:	2013	2014	2015
Print Materials Expenditures	$10,710,796	$11,155,043	$11,302,055
% of Collection Expenditures	56.98%	56.15%	55.46%
Electronic Materials Expenditures	$1,691,409	$2,007,986	$2,339,658
% of Collection Expenditures	9.00%	10.11%	11.48%
Other Material	$6,394,333	$6,701,897	$6,738,676
% of Collection Expenditures	34.02%	33.74%	33.06%

 

Basic trend, as expected – print down; E up.

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Amy Heebner (NY)

 

I’m sorry but I don’t have 2015 numbers yet.  Here are the numbers for NY for 2014 and 2013.

 

2014

62.1% print

22.2% electronic

15.7% other

 

2013

62.5% print

20.1% electronic

17.4% other

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Amanda Johnson (NC)

 

Hi Kristen,

 

Here are NC’s numbers:

 

FY14/15:

Print: 72%

Electronic: 15%

Other: 13%

 

The FY13/14 numbers are slightly different but the percentage breakdown is exactly the same as FY14/15.  I triple checked that!

 

FY12/13

Print: 78%

Electronic: 9%

Other: 13%

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Jeremiah Kellogg (VT)

 

Hi Kristen,

 

In Vermont we have a number of smaller libraries that don’t break their collection expenditures down into those three categories.  Instead they report all of their collection expenditures as one lump sum (does anyone else have to deal with that?).  In any event, I’m going to refer to those percentages as “Combined.”  I suppose you might be able also call it “Other,” but figured you’d want to know what combined meant.  Seeing that they’re often very small libraries that do this, it’s probably safe to say that very little (if any of it) goes to e-materials.

Here are the number for Vermont:

2015

• E-materials: 10%

• Print: 59%

• AV: 13%

• Combined: 18%

2014

• E-materials: 10%

• Print: 59%

• AV: 12%

• Combined: 19%

2013

• E-materials: 8%

• Print: 62%

• AV: 14%

• Combined: 16%

 

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Lauren Plews (RI)

 

Hi Kristen,

 

Here is  RI’s data:

 

	FY2013	FY2014	FY2015
Print Materials Expenditures	68%	66%	66%
Electronic Materials Expenditures	14%	14%	16%
Other Materials Expenditures	18%	19%	19%

 

Please do share the results.

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Jaime Ball (AZ)

 

As requested. Interesting to note in Arizona that print expenditures have gone up while electronic have gone down.

 

                                   2013                              2014                                   2015**                         

Print                           52.4%                            54.7%                                  57.0%

Other                         22.8%                            21.8%                                  20.3%

Electronic                   24.8%                           23.5%                                  22.7%

 

** Data has not been vetted.

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Joy Garretson (MS)

 

Kristen,

 

Here are Mississippi’s numbers:

(I stole Jay Bank’s chart format. Thanks, Jay!)

 

Fiscal Year:	2013	2014
Print Materials Expenditures	$3,095,882	$3,212,614
% of Collection Expenditures	%70.3	72.6%
Electronic Materials Expenditures	$634,823	$501,318
% of Collection Expenditures	14.4%	11.3%
Other Material	$674,190	$712,130
% of Collection Expenditures	15.3%	16.1%

 

We’re still compiling the numbers for 2015.

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Megan Schulz (KS)

 

Below table shows the Kansas percentage breakdown by type of total collection expenditures.

 

	FY2013	FY2014	FY2015**not vetted
Print	57.02%	61.31%	58.20%
Electronic	21.16%	20.47%	19.97%
Other	21.82%	18.22%	21.82%

 

***For “bonus points”- Does anyone want to calculate the odds of us having the same percentage (down to two decimal places) spent on “Other” for FY2013 and again in FY2015?

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Stacey Malek (TX)

 

The most recent year I have available for Texas is 2014.

 

60% Print

23% Electronic

17% Other Materials

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Carole Suzui (HI)

 

I could not separate print from CDs and DVDs.  The accounting department uses the same object code for print, CDs and DVDs expenditures except for high demand DVDs.  Those have their own object code.

With that in mind this is the percentage breakdown of materials expenditures for FY2013, FY2014, and FY2015 for Hawaii.

 

	FY2013	FY2014	FY2015
print (incl. CDs, DVDs)	61.76%	63.01%	61.62%
electronic	35.03%	34.72%	35.51%
other (microforms, high demand DVDs)	3.21%	2.27%	2.87%

 

Sorry I couldn't provide more accurate numbers.

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Nelson Worley (VA)

 

Stats for Virginia

	FY 2013	FY 2014	FY 2015
Books	57%	55%	54%
E-Materials	20%	22%	24%
All Others	23%	23%	22%

 

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Justin Maga (AS)

 

American Samoa Stats

 

FY13	FY14
48%	46%	Books
38%	37%	E-Materials
14%	17%	Others

 

FY15 Not available

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Kristen Stehel (UT)

 

Thanks to all that contributed. Here are the average numbers showing how Collection Expenditures are divided: 

 

60% spent on Print Collections

20% on Other Materials

20% on E-materials

 

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Cathy Van Hoy (OK)

 

Here’s Oklahoma – would you share your final results please – Thanks! - Cathy

 

	Total Print	Total electronic materials	Total other mtls	Total Collection
2015	54%	25%	21%	$14,762,919
2014	57%	22%	22%	$15,281,549
2013	65%	18%	22%	$14,885,655