Table 1. Total circulation, interlibrary loan transactions, and documents received from commercial services at academic libraries, by control, level, size, and Carnegie classification of institution: Fiscal year 2008

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	Total number of libraries	Circulation		Interlibrary loan transactions and documents received from commercial services
		General collection	Reserve collection	Loans provided to other libraries			Loans and documents received
				Total	Returnable	Non- returnable¹	Total	Returnable	Non- returnable	From commercial services²
Institutional characteristic				Total	Returnable	Non- returnable¹	Total	Returnable	Non- returnable	From commercial services²
All U.S. academic libraries	3,827	138,102,762	40,663,408	11,095,168	6,722,510	4,372,658	10,695,342	5,535,056	4,224,658	935,628

Control
Public	1,576	88,140,474	27,745,430	6,969,185	4,055,965	2,913,220	6,386,661	3,212,660	2,609,690	564,311
Private	2,251	49,962,288	12,917,978	4,125,983	2,666,545	1,459,438	4,308,681	2,322,396	1,614,968	371,317

Level³
Total 4-year and above	2,393	120,659,016	34,858,810	10,224,099	5,906,554	4,317,545	9,590,300	4,983,340	4,145,816	461,144
Doctor's	721	88,575,059	24,553,121	7,672,219	4,126,298	3,545,921	6,948,306	3,479,113	3,116,616	352,577
Master's	911	21,614,197	6,788,944	1,833,711	1,249,443	584,268	1,920,870	1,051,301	773,188	96,381
Bachelor's	730	10,167,574	3,333,073	646,045	477,095	168,950	696,503	433,742	250,931	11,830
Less than 4-year	1,434	17,443,746	5,804,598	871,069	815,956	55,113	1,105,042	551,716	78,842	474,484

Size (FTE enrollment)⁴
Less than 1,000	1,455	7,254,621	1,309,653	478,677	319,192	159,485	433,184	234,577	164,209	34,398
1,000 to 2,999	1,136	19,700,007	6,072,357	1,733,162	1,186,090	547,072	2,075,379	1,024,631	629,254	421,494
3,000 to 4,999	475	11,348,108	3,802,823	1,004,578	737,372	267,206	1,250,549	570,980	345,551	334,018
5,000 to 9,999	405	17,603,179	7,147,469	1,606,989	1,011,634	595,355	1,466,773	805,270	638,360	23,143
10,000 to 19,999	238	30,324,749	10,941,609	2,366,472	1,370,518	995,954	2,271,595	1,197,314	1,014,968	59,313
20,000 or more	118	51,872,098	11,389,497	3,905,290	2,097,704	1,807,586	3,197,862	1,702,284	1,432,316	63,262

Carnegie classification³
Doctoral/Research	275	73,067,019	19,929,179	6,193,270	3,333,160	2,860,110	5,478,954	2,836,010	2,391,647	251,297
Master's I and II	603	23,803,770	7,856,874	2,055,420	1,279,380	776,040	2,249,835	1,077,664	1,019,840	152,331
Baccalaureate	557	13,877,587	4,774,230	1,300,092	988,402	311,690	1,338,889	871,651	444,607	22,631
Baccalaureate/Associates	96	951,931	270,388	50,998	45,988	5,010	46,598	35,222	11,356	20
Associates	1,474	18,788,529	6,056,288	905,467	842,863	62,604	1,128,355	564,219	82,151	481,985
Specialized	645	7,337,352	1,712,195	579,703	227,666	352,037	435,868	142,510	266,072	27,286
Not classified	177	276,574	64,254	10,218	5,051	5,167	16,843	7,780	8,985	78
¹ "Non-returnables" refers to materials that the supplier/lending library does not expect to have returned. Examples of non-returnables include photocopies or facsimiles, fiche-to-fiche copies, print copies from microfilm, electronic full-text documents, and gratis print copies of unpublished reports and/or departmental working papers.
² "Documents delivered from commercial services" refers to all documents from commercial document delivery services received by the library's users. This includes all transactions that the library pays for, even if library staff is not involved in the transaction.
³ While "level" and "Carnegie classification" are similar, there is not complete overlap in the two classifications. "Level" refers to the highest level of any degree offered by the institution. The "Carnegie classification" is based on criteria such as institutional mission and research funding in addition to highest level of degree awarded. The Carnegie classification was developed by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and published in A Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, 2005 Edition.
⁴ Full-time equivalent (FTE) enrollment is calculated by adding one-third of part-time enrollment to full-time enrollment.
NOTE: The number of doctoral, master's, and bachelor's level institutions does not sum to the total number of 4-year and above institutions because there are 4-year and above institutions that grant "other" degrees and are thus not included in the breakdown.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Academic Libraries Survey (ALS), 2008.

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