Administration Statistics

Notes

CUL and ReCAP track statistics separately.  The primary data sets are similar but include important differences.  Please contact the ReCAP Coordinator for assistance with data analysis.

Department-level and parameter-specific analysis can only be done with the CUL data set.

Gross activity and cost-sharing calculations must be done with the ReCAP data set.

Data

Definition of terms

Accession : Collections that have been transfered to the ReCAP facility

Request : Collections requested by CUL patrons or staff for delivery to campus (unique to CUL data set)

Retrieval : Items removed from the shelf by ReCAP staff (unique to ReCAP data set)

Delivery : Items physically delivered to campus locations

EDD : Requests for electronic article or book chapter scans

Request Rate : Percentage of collections requested per year

Primary Statistics

 AccessionRequestEDD
FY02455,6582,147169
FY03793,30714,734391
FY04544,31027,1631,745
FY05315,64836,3421,965
FY06300,71043,7072,775
FY07323,14250,8152,523
FY08270,44760,7452,335
FY09376,03770,6214,462
FY10252,24773,2976,588
FY11
196,76073,4655,337
FY12 179,98474,6984,482
FY13218,12575,5453,545
Total4,226,375603,279 36,272

Note : ReCAP facility's total accessions 4,244,524 include permanent withdrawals.  CUL's statistics do not track these.  From FY02-FY13 there were 18,529 withdrawals.

Request Rate = 1.94%

Department Statistics (through FY13)

 AccessionRequest
Avery271,03068,413
Biology
54,919
7,385
Chemistry
48,6373,927
Engineering170,57217,098
Geology/Geoscience52,4633,150
Mathematics1,70684
Physics44,9774,305
Psychology28,7345,961
Science61,6049,273
Sub-total Sciences463,61251,183
Burke
168,82018,226
Business
248,61429,803
Butler
1,448,029211,685
East Asian
538,83374,978
Journalism
1,213685
Lehman
269,91036,257
Music
105,926
19,134
RBML
173,727
47,503
Social Work
41,359
11,008
Health Sciences204,61821,283
Law290,68413,121
TOTAL4,226,375
603,279

Charts

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ReCAP User Inquiry Alias: recap@library.columbia.edu

Supervisor, ReCAP Access Services: Jennifer Loubriel

Phone: (212) 854-3542

E-mail: jll2223@columbia.edu