Academic Libraries: 2006

Title:	Academic Libraries: 2006
Description:	The Academic Libraries: 2006 First Look summarizes services, staff, collections, and expenditures of academic libraries in 2- and 4-year, degree-granting postsecondary institutions in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The nation’s 3,600 academic libraries held 1.0 billion books; serial backfiles; and other paper materials, including government documents at the end of FY 2006, and there were 144.1 million circulation transactions from their general collections. During the same time period, academic libraries’ expenditures totaled $6.2 billion.
Online Availability:	Download, view and print the report as a pdf file. (1,165KB) Download, view and print the Supplemental Tables as a pdf file. (169KB)
Cover Date:	July 2006
Web Release:	July 8, 2008
Print Release:	This Publication will only be available online.
Publication #:	NCES 2008337 General Ordering Information
Center/Program:	NCES
Authors:	Holton, B., Hardesty, L., and O’Shea, P.
Type of Product:	First Look / ED TAB
Survey/Program Areas:	Library Statistics Program (Lib)
Keywords:	Libraries • academic • expenditures of • higher education Postsecondary Institutions
Questions:	For questions about the content of this First Look / ED TAB, please contact: Patrick Keaton.