Changed for FY2015

552 Circulation of Electronic Materials – The total annual circulation of all electronic materials

Electronic Materials are materials that are distributed digitally and can be accessed via a computer, the Internet, or a portable device such as an e-book reader.   Types of electronic materials include e-books and downloadable electronic video and audio files.  Electronic Materials packaged together as a unit and checked out as a unit are counted as one unit. Include circulation only for items counted under Electronic Books (E-Books), Audio-Downloadable Units and Video-Downloadable Units in the LIBRARY COLLECTION data elements 450-460. Do not include items not specified under those definitions.

Changed for FY2015 for those states able to collect. All states to collect for FY2016 survey.

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Prior definition:

552 Circulation of Electronic Materials – The total annual circulation of all electronic materials

Definition:

Electronic Materials are materials that are distributed digitally and can be accessed via a computer, the Internet, or a portable device such as an e-book reader.  Types of electronic materials include e-books and downloadable electronic video and audio files.  Electronic Materials packaged together as a unit and checked out as a unit are counted as one unit.

Note:  Do not include databases.

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Added in FY2013 PLS

Additional information

Rationale: We would like to see this placed in the survey because of the great increase in electronic materials. Adding this statistic would allow us to calculate electronic materials circulation as a percentage of total circulation (Item # 550). This is a trend worth measuring on a national level. (The definition borrows from electronic materials collection, item #451.)

Definitions for 550 Total Circulation and 551 Children's Circulation will remain the same with all formats including electronic.  Circulation of Electronic Materials will be another subset of Total Circulation as is Children's Circulation.  Respondents will continue to report Total and Children's as before.

This new item would be added under “Services” as 552 Circulation of Electronic Materials.  ILL numbers “552 Provided to” and “553 Received From” would be changed to “553 Provided to and “554 Received From.”

Added for FY2013 PLS for those states able to collect. All states to collect for FY2014 survey.