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Digital Library Center: ARL Statistics 2007-2008 Reporting Year Library Digitization Activities

Annual ARL Preservation Statistics

10. Number and size of Library Digital Collections

  1. Number of collections:  57 active collections
    We restructed the hierarchies and now have more subcollections for greater usability and increased likelihood of serendipitous searches. (in 2006-2007: 41)
  2. Size (in gigabytes): 65TB
    Full Digital Archive: 66,560GB (65TB)
    Actual online ready-use files: 6,144GB (6TB)
    Digital archive includes the archival masters (TIFF, MPEG, etc) and all derivatives (Zoomable JPEG2000, text files, standard JPEGs, JPEG thumbnails, audio and video files, PDF, etc.). The online ready-use files do not include the archival masters.
    2006-2007: 40 TB
  3. Items (digital objects or unique files in the collections): 147,142 items with 3,078,499 unique pages.
    Arrearage has grown from the 120,000+ items last reported.
    2006-2007: 54,855

11. Use of Library Digital Collections

  1. Number of times items accessed: 1,433,183 hits
    Even though for much of this time search engines were denied per robot misbehavior. This excludes hits on resources at partner (duplicated resource) collections, e.g., State of Florida collaborative (http://palmm.fcla.edu/), International Children's Digital Book Library (childrenslibrary.org), Internet Archive (archive.org), etc.
    2008, July-December: 1,867,543 hits
    2007-2008: 1,433,183 hits
    2006-2007: 1,236,164 hits
  2. Number of queries conducted: 63,127 queries
    Many queries are from outside the digital collections, from the catalog or a commercial search like Google in those cases users are getting directly to the desired resources.
    Excluding hits on resources at partner (duplicated resource) collections, e.g., State of Florida collaborative (http://palmm.fcla.edu/), International Children's Digital Book Library (childrenslibrary.org), Internet Archive (archive.org), etc.
    2006-2007: 1,843,434 (stats collected differently)

12.  Direct costs of digital collections construction and management

  1. Direct cost of personnel: $668,842.55
    $598,786.26 (includes fringe for salaries)
    $70,056.29 OPS
    (Baldwin and dLOC Grants would add another 80,787, but this is not included in the above)
    2006-2007: $617,000
  2. Direct cost of equipment, software, or contracted services:
    $366,062
    Breakdown: Systems: 64,024 (which includes the DLC San, which was 49,971) and 2,039, for a subtotal of $66,063 plus the cost of microfilm conversion (299,999.65); total $366,062
    2006-2007: $225,000

ARL Preservation Statistics, Library Digitization Activities

7a. Professional Staff. see 12a above 
7b. Support Staff. see 12a above 
7c. Student Assistants. see 12 above 
7. Total Salaries. see 12a above 

8e. Other contract expenditures.  $299,999 (microfilm digitization)

20: Volumes digitized and online for 2007-2008 include photos, videos, objects, paintings, articles, reports, audio, newspapers, books, letters, posters, etc.

20b. Microfilmed volumes:  0
20c. Digitized volumes: 
January 2009:
January 2009: 97,617 bibliographic items for all years (various numbers of volumes, all with various page lengths) being tracked, and others would increase this number in the final digitization stage but that are not tracked sent from partners to dLOC and not in main tracking system
2006-7: 43,722

21b. Microfilmed unbound sheets:  0
21c. Digitized unbound sheets: 
2006-7: 2,743

22b. Photographs & Non-Paper items digitized: 
2006: 8,390

Funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (National Digital Newspaper Program), from the State of Florida’s Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) (Florida Digital Newspaper Library), and from U.S. Dept. of Education TICFIA program (Digital Library of the Caribbean), as well as from foundation supporting the construction of digital library collections at the University of Florida Libraries.

 

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