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Digital Library Center: ARL Statistics 2008-2009 Reporting Year

Annual ARL Preservation Statistics

10. Number and size of Library Digital Collections

  1. Number of collections:  245 active collections
    Prior counts were based on our official collection definitions and counts. In 2007-2008, UF moved more materials to be defined within large subcollections of even larger collections to increase serendipity. Given the holdinsg within each subcollection, they parallel the norm for digital collections and for ARL reporting purposes, the 245 active collections is based on the subcollection count.
    2008-2009: 245 active collections (complete list & breakdown)
    2007-2008: 57 active collections
    2006-2007: 41 active collections

  2. Size (in gigabytes): 93 TB
    Full Digital Archive: 93 TB
    Actual online ready-use files: 6.77TB for JP2 files; 2TB for other derivative images, text, and metdata files
    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.
    2008-2009: 93 TB
    2007-2008: 65 TB (online, access copy files: 6,144GB/6TB)
    2006-2007: 40 TB
  3. Items (digital objects or unique files in the collections): 191,040 items with 3,870,007 unique pages
    2008-2009: 191,040 items with 3,870,007 unique pages (Arrearage has reduced from the 120,000+ items reported in 2006-7 and 2007-8.)
    2007-2008: 147,142 items with 3,078,499 unique pages
    2006-2007: 54,855

11. Use of Library Digital Collections (2008-2009 usage stats here)

  1. Number of times items accessed: 4,691,489
    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.
    2008-2009: 4,691,489
    2007-2008: 1,433,183 hits
    2006-2007: 1,236,164 hits

  2. Number of queries conducted: 77,792
    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.
    2008-2009: 77,792 queries within UFDC (includes search results and browses, 58,159+19,633; does not include catalog or Google searches)
    2007-2008: 63,127 queries
    2006-2007: 1,843,434 (stats collected differently)

12.  Direct costs of digital collections construction and management

  1. Direct cost of personnel: $498,390
    2008-2009: $335,160 + fringe@33.12% = $446,164 + $52,226 OPS = $498,390
    In August 2009, two new staff members were hired and the salary cost changes will be reflected for the next reporting year (2009-2010). Funding from the Everglades grant, the dLOC grant, and internal mini-grants not included in the total above.
    2007-2008: Note, $598,786.26 includes fringe for salaries and $70,056.29 OPS.
    Two senior librarians, Erich Kesse and Stephanie Haas, left half way through the fiscal year and thus lowered the overall salary expenditure, and the Baldwin and dLOC Grants would add another 80,787 (this is not included in the above).
    2006-2007: $617,000

  2. Direct cost of equipment, software, or contracted services:
    2008-2009: major purchases include replacement high speed scanners (ticket 31028); 3D image capture equipment (ticket 31679 for a laptop + equipment ordered through BH for $9,519); audio equipment (ticket 30416); and new UFDC server space (ticket 28395)
    2007-2008: Systems: $64,024 (which includes the DLC San, which was $49,971)
    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.
2008-2009: 0 
2007-2008: $299,999 (microfilm digitization)

20. Number of bound volumes/pamphlets reformatted in their entirety
Volumes digitized and online for 2008-2009 include photos, videos, objects, paintings, articles, reports, audio, newspapers, books, letters, posters, etc, as well as files digitally ingested and normalized for online access and preservation.

  1. Photocopied: n/a for the DLC
  2. Microfilmed volumes:  0 ; n/a
  3. Digitized volumes:  same as 10c: 191,040 items with 3,870,007 unique pages
    November 2009: 106,814 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.

21. Number of single unbound sheets reformatted (e.g., one side of one manuscript page, one map)

  1. Photocopied: n/a for the DLC
  2. Microfilmed unbound sheets:  0 ; n/a
  3. Digitized unbound sheets:  included within 10c and 20c statistics being reported.

22. Number of photographs and non-paper items reformatted (e.g., audio tapes, motion picture film) (22b: 2006, 8,390)

  1. By analog means: n/a for the DLC
  2. By digital means: included within 10c and 20c statistics
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