Penn Libraries Selectedfacts |2017

Penn Libraries SelectedFacts | 2017 Historical Milestones | 1750-2017

1750 Penn receives donation of books from famed cartographer Louis Evans. 1762-4 First Provost William Smith travels to England to raise money for the Library. First list of collections created. 1784 Louis XVI, King of France, gives 100 volumes. 1829 First Library printed catalog published. 1872 Penn moves to West Philadelphia, with Library quartered in College Hall. 1884 First professional librarian, James G. Barnwell, appointed to direct the Library. Dictionary catalog initiated. 1891 Furness Library opens, with 55,000 volumes. The next half-century saw the significant growth of collections & the founding of many departmental and special libraries, including: Dentistry (1914), Lea (1924), Lippincott (1927), Medicine (1931). c1945 Libraries reach one-million-volume mark. 1962 Van Pelt Library opens. 1967 Dietrich Graduate Library Center opens. 1969 Biomedical Library opens in its present location, Johnson Pavilion. 1972 Automated circulation system introduced. Penn, Drexel and Temple become the first libraries outside Ohio to use the computerized cataloging system of OCLC. 1973 Library Data Services Office established. 1981 Three-millionth acquisition. #4 1985 Online catalog introduced. Founded in 1740, and one of 1990 Opening of the Anne and Jerome Fisher Fine Arts Library marks the restoration the nine original colonial col- of the landmark structure designed by Frank Furness. leges, Penn’s charter is the 4th earliest in the nation, preceded 1993 Four-millionth acquisition. only by Harvard, William and 1995 Penn’s Digital Library opens on the World Wide Web. Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Mary, and Yale. Penn had been Center renovation begins. assembling and curating library 1996 The Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image opens, transforming collections since 1750, which makes the Libraries, arguably, research by making special collections available worldwide for scholarly use the University’s oldest continu- through archive-quality digital facsimiles. ously operating institution after 1997-8 The VPDLC renovation completed. Voyager Library Management System the faculty. launched. 1999 Construction begins on the Undergraduate Study Center in Van Pelt-Dietrich. 2000 Libraries observe 250th anniversary. 2001 Five-millionth acquisition. 2002 Libraries assume responsibility for campus-wide Blackboard courseware support. 2004-5 Libraries launch digital repository, the ScholarlyCommons@Penn. 2006 The Weigle Information Commons opens in Van Pelt-Dietrich. 2010 Construction of Special Collections Center begins. 2011 Launch of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies to bring together manuscript culture, modern technology and scholars at Penn and beyond. 2012 Education Commons opens in Franklin Field. 2013 Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts opens. 2015 Final phases of Kislak Center construction are completed. 2016-17 ALMA, the cloud-based Library Management Platform is launched, opening a new period in Library technology services. The Moelis Family Grand Reading Room opens. Penn Libraries SelectedFacts | 2017

Contents

The Libraries at a Glance ...... 1

Use of the Libraries’ Collections ...... 3

Resource Sharing: Enabling Discovery ...... 5

Resource Sharing: From Discovery to Delivery ...... 7

Research & Teaching Support ...... 9

Finances ...... 11

Information Expenditures ...... 13

NURSING median 40 Advancement ...... 15

SP2 30 Benchmarks & University Indicators ...... 17

(All E-Resources) 25

20 Principal Officers & Advisors ...... 19

15 PSOM DESIGN ASC GSE SAS median 10 DENTAL Source and Notes Per Capita Login WHARTON LAW 5 SEAS VET 0

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Per Capita Circulation (All Material Types)

Access this publication online through the Penn Library Data Farm at http://metridoc.library.upenn.edu. For information about Penn Library Analytics, contact Joe Zucca, Associate University Librarian for Technology Services and Strategic Initiatives, 215-573-4643 | [email protected] or Andy Sarno, Strategic Planning Officer, 215-746-4938 | [email protected] Penn Libraries at a Glance

Annenberg Biddle Law Circulation 1,099 Circulation 14,637 Volumes 9,407 Volumes 665,687 Visitors na Visitors na Net Sq. Ft. 3,425 Net Sq. Ft. 66,466 Computers 9 Computers 45 30,811,553 Seating 54 Seating 623 Service events Permanent Staff 3 Permanent Staff 31.57 in 2017

L. Levey Dental Library Education Commons Circulation 636 Circulation na Volumes 36,451 Volumes na Visitors 73,332 Visitors 10,000 Net Sq. Ft. 5,724 Net Sq. Ft. 6,400 Figure 1. Types of Service Events Computers 35 Computers 38 Seating 102 Seating 168 Permanent Staff 4.4 Permanent Staff 1

262,611,446 Journals, books and related items available to Penn scholars and staff

Ivies Plus Collections PALCI Collections

Penn Ejournals (in volume equivalents) Math/Phys/Astronomy Museum Library Circulation 1,966 Circulation 4,799 HathiTrust Ebook E-serials Volumes 45,357 Volumes 145,123 Visitors 24,403 Visitors 59,696 Penn Print Collections Net Sq. Ft. 2,027 Net Sq. Ft. 11,671 Computers 5 Computers 10 Center for Research Libraries Holdings Seating 45 Seating 175 Microform Units Permanent Staff 2 Permanent Staff 3.57

Digitied Images

Penn Ebooks Library Research Annex Totals Circulation 11,187 Circulation† 193,999 Units of ther Formats, e.g. Audio, Maps Volumes 2,233,522 Volumes 6,513,215 Visitors na Visitors 1,485,076 Figure 2. Information Resources Net Sq. Ft. 43,400 Net Sq. Ft. 502,526 Computers 1 Computers 677 Seating 24 Seating 4,153 Permanent Staff 10 Permanent Staff 338 Page 1 Page 2 Van Pelt

Fine Arts

Biddle Law Biomedical Katz Center Chemistry Circulation Circulation 3,602 Circulation 2,005 Circulation 2,379 Figure 3 Volumes 101,330 Volumes 217,130 Volumes 34,774 Visitors 106,119 Visitors 135 Visitors 42,884 Net Sq. Ft. 33,726 Net Sq. Ft. 11,391 Net Sq. Ft. 6,492 Music Computers 88 Computers 3 Computers 18 Seating 287 Seating 26 Seating 112 Permanent Staff 14.4 Permanent Staff 4 Permanent Staff 3

Museum

Biomedical

Lippincott (Business)

Fine Arts Library Kislak Center Lippincott Library Circulation 15,597 Circulation 7,338 Circulation 2,910 Volumes 178,346 Volumes 255,559 Volumes 159,124 Chemistry Visitors 104,099 Visitors na Visitors na Volumes Net Sq. Ft. 19,934 Net Sq. Ft. 46,065 Net Sq. Ft. 27,610 Figure 4 Computers 27 Computers 12 Computers 45 Seating 375 Seating 330 Seating 244 Katz Permanent Staff 10 Permanent Staff 42.92 Permanent Staff 10.57 (Jewish studies)

Math|Physics|Astron.

Veterinary

Annenberg (Communication) Otto Albrecht Music Libr Van Pelt Library Steven Atwood Vet. Library Circulation 5,249 Circulation 118,964 Circulation 1,631 Volumes 137,526 Volumes 2,260,656 Volumes 33,223 Visitors na Visitors 952,203 Visitors 112,205 Net Sq. Ft. 6,369 Net Sq. Ft. 204,494 Net Sq. Ft. 7,332 Dental Computers 12 Computers 294 Computers 35 Visitors Seating 45 Seating 1,428 Seating 115 Figure 5 Permanent Staff 4.57 Permanent Staff 189.64 Permanent Staff 3.77 Kislak (Rare Bk & Mss)

† NB: The circulation figures recorded in this booklet are based on use of the Penn collection by Penn affiliates. They Library do not include interlibrary lending, which is represented as a distinct line of service, or in-house use. Unless otherwise Research Annex noted, the data do include the use of all lendable resources, including computers and other equipment used in teaching, learning and research. Page 2 E-Resource Sessions Use oftheLibraries’ 130,000 150,000 170,000 110,000 10,000 30,000 50,000 70,000 90,000 Figures 6.PerCapitaUseofElectronicResources Circulation, All FormatsbyBorrowerStatus Repository articlesandthesesviews E-Book uses(chapterviews) E-journal Articles Downloaded Items circulatedthroughinterlending FROM PARTNERS All circulationfromPennlocations FROM PENNCOLLECTIONS Use ofPhysicalandDigitalCollections Other Alumni/Courtesy Grad Carrels Faculty 23,683 Staff Undergraduate Student Grad Student 0 Other equipment Laptop computerscirculated Sound recordingscirculated Videos circulated Course reserveitemscirculated(print) Print itemscirculated-generalandspecialcollections

PSM

SAS

NURSING *Includes non-circulatingspecialcollections

WHARTN AND NETWORKPLATFORMS

SP2 *

GSE

SEAS Sessions PerCapita E-Resource Sessions DESIGN Collections

DENTAL

LAW

ASC Current YearCurrent Current YearCurrent

VETERINARY 2,128,809 7,268,553

165,563 151,750 193,999 860,091

28,919 41,707 61,184 20,339

0 10 20 30 40 50 4,672 4,973 4,220 8,045 5,720 4,166 6,759 FY17 FY17 Sessions Per Capita Per Sessions

Page 3 1.00 1.021.051.010.960.90 1.00 1.020.730.620.420.360.20 1.00 0.920.770.540.430.44 1.00 0.910.900.850.970.720.68 1.00 0.920.580.380.250.190.35 1.00 0.870.690.590.460.360.23 1.00 0.940.830.820.770.690.67 1.00 0.940.810.760.700.610.58 FY11 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 FY11 1.00 1.311.761.962.392.542.53 1.00 1.331.842.453.854.183.81 1.00 0.920.901.171.10 Total Items Borrowed 100,000 120,000 140,000 Figure 7.PerCapitaUseofPenn’s PrintMaterials 10,000 60,000 80,000 [excludes BiddleLaw&SpecialCollections] 0 FY12 FY13FY14FY15FY16FY17 1.22 1.150.850.751.051.21 1.14 1.230.940.890.800.75 0.98 1.040.970.950.780.84 0.98 0.900.870.790.700.72 0.93 0.840.810.740.720.64 0.94 0.790.690.560.430.38 0.91 0.800.750.660.570.51 FY12 FY13FY14FY15FY16FY17

SAS Trend Index Trend Index ASC

DESIGN

GSE

SP2

LAW

SEAS Items BorrowedPerCapita Total ItemsBorrowed NURSING

WHARTN

VETERINARY

DENTAL

PSM Library resource 10 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 a sessionwith

a userbegins Items Borrowed Per Capita Per Borrowed Items 2.3 seconds Every online

Penn Libraries SelectedFacts 2017

Items Supplied by Faculty Express (a service that delivers books and articles directly to faculty offices)

Current Year Trend Index FY17 FY10 FY11 FY12 FY13 FY14 FY15 FY16 FY17

17,279 1.00 1.06 1.07 0.94 1.00 0.92 0.94 0.97 Figure 8. Ebook Use vs. Print Circulation (Penn’s collections)

1,000,000 Figure 9. Circulation by School and Subject Cluster (Penn’s collections) 900,000 Ebook uses 100,000 800,000

700,000 10,000 600,000

500,000

400,000 1,000

300,000

200,000 100 Items circulated in 100,000

local collections Items Circulated (log10) 0 10

2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

1 Figure 10. Collection Use Correlated with Degrees and Certificates

SAS GSE ASC LAW SP2 SEAS PSM DESIGN DENTAL NURSING SAS WHARTN 100,000 VETERINARY

Language Literature History Arts Music Social Sci, Business, Law Science, Tech., Medicine Philosophy, Psych. Religion General

NURSING

GSE WHARTN NB: E-journals and e-books have become the preferred media 10,000 DESIGN for learning and research involving texts. Penn’s print collec- PSM SEAS tion is still the preserve of specialized areas where the corpus SP2 remains largely in print. Among the Libraries’ more popular

LAW services, Faculty Express continues to reach an audience with an abiding need for information in printed form. Regardless of ASC DENTAL format, scholars work across the subject spectrum of our collec- VETERINARY tions and ostensibly their disciplines, as Figure 9 illustrates. A 1,000 comparison of student use of print and electronic materials to de-

Student Usage Events / Circulation + E-Sessions (log10) grees and other credentials conferred (see Figure 10), provides evidence that the use of library materials is directly relevant to 0 400 800 1,200 1,600 2,000 2,400 2,800 fundamental university outputs. Degrees Certifications Awarded

Page 3 Page 4 Resource Sharing

Enabling Discovery Penn, Temple and Drexel pioneer shared electronic cataloging using a system designed by the Ohio 1972 College Library Center

Figure 12. Adoption of Penn Cataloging Via OCLC by Publication Date

450,000 420,000 390,000 360,000 330,000 300,000 270,000 Figure 11. World-Wide Adoption of Penn Cataloging 240,000 210,000 Libraries around the world share resources in a number of 180,000 ways. The most familiar is the exchange of books and other physical materials known as interlibrary loan. Interlibrary supply 150,000 chains are built on several foundations, the primary and most 120,000 important of which is metadata, the descriptive information that Original Cataloging Adopters of Penn’s 90,000 makes it possible for scholars to discover and access resourc- 60,000 es held in library collections. 30,000 0 Among other initiatives, this page describes Penn’s contri- butions to an international network of metadata that powers 13th14th15th16th17th18th19th190019101920193019401950196019701980199020002010 discovery and resource sharing. Behind it is a vast cooperative Publication Date in Centuries and Decades After 1900 cataloging system called OCLC (the Online Computer Library Center, Inc.). Penn was an early adopter of OCLC, which after Figure 13. Adoption of Penn Cataloging Via OCLC by Subject Class 40+ years contains nearly half a million book and serial records created by Penn metadata specialists and used over a million 100.0% times in library catalogs across the globe (Figure 11). Figure 12 shows the distribution of these shared catalog records by 50.0% publication date; Figure 13 analyzes that distribution by subject P-Lang Lit and format. 20.0% M-Music D-World History Thanks to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Penn librarians 10.0% have been digging deep into the rare and unique troves of our B-Philo Religion H-Social Sci N-Fine Arts collections, cataloging original sources once hidden from view. 5.0% Their work provides a new stream of original metadata to the T-Technology Q-Science G-Geography world’s knowledge bases, describing distinctive materials that J-PoliSci 2.0% Z-Bibliography supplement past research and open new realms of inquiry. Monographs EF-Hist of Amer A-General Figure 16, tracks the growing number of hidden collections ear- K-Law R-Medicine L-Education 1.0% marked for OCLC and other catalogs of record. It also includes C-Aux History S-Agriculture a few illustrative examples. 0.5% Figures 14, 15 and 17 document the Libraries’ efforts to acquire U-Military Sci. and also create information that backs Penn’s investment in 0.2% collaboration. Libraries can only benefit from resource shar- V-Naval Sci. ing programs when they’re prepared to build the collateral 0.1% necessary for partnership and make that material available for 0.2% 0.5% 1.0% 2.0% 5.0% 10.0% 20.0% 50.0% 100.0% discovery and future use. Page 5 Serials Penn Libraries SelectedFacts 2017

Figure 14. Circulation by Languages in Rank Order Figure 15. Production of Digitized Images by Penn

4,000,000

1 English 3,500,000 2 German 3 French 4 Spanish 3,000,000 5 Italian 6 Chinese 2,500,000 7 Hebrew 8 Japanese 2,000,000 9 Russian 10 Arabic Rank 11 Korean 1,500,000 12 Latin 13 Turkish 562 Digital Images Created 1,000,000 14 Hindi Languages represented in 15 Persian Penn’s print collection 16 Portuguese 500,000 17 Greek 18 Sanskrit 0 19 Dutch 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017 20 Swedish 21 Polish Figure 17. Penn’s Resource Acquisition & Cataloging Over Time

0.00 0.01 0.10 1.00 10.00 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17

Frequency of Circulation [log10 183,000

122,000

different language groups in the book E-Journal 61,000 176 collection circulated in 2017 0

Figure 16. “Lighting-up” Hidden Collections 3,300,000 2,200,000

Images 1,100,000 140 Benamin Indic Running Chaim Potok Franklin 0 Press Papers MSS. Papers (NE) Records (170590) 120 1,680,000 Theo. reiser James T. Lawrence lein Farrell Papers Library 1,120,000

Papers

E-Book 100 560,000 .C.Lea Geoffrey ackney enison Library Presidential Measure of Inventory Measure 0 (Mellon) Gulliver’s Travels Gift Collection 80 Fairman Gotham Rogers Book Mart 28,500 Ecuestrian Collection Papers 60 19,000 IllmanCarter Culture Print Serials Children’s Class Literature Collection 9,500 Collection (Mellon) 40 144,0000

126,000 20 108,000

Print Vols Added Print Vols

Number of Collections Curated or in the Processing Queue 90,000 0 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017 72,000 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Page 5 Page 6 Resource Sharing From Discovery to Delivery

PENN BORROWS Titles Copies Total 1-Yr. Chng 5-Yr. Avg Penn’s work at sharing metadata about our collections– Interlibrary Loan 13,924 14,243 28,167 -11.6% 1.4% detailed in the previous section–dovetails with access and Direct Borrowing† 40,505 n/a 40,505 -8.3% -8.5% delivery from those collections. In this arena, our students RAPIDº n/a 16,646 16,646 5.7% -11.5% and faculty enjoy extraordinary services. We have placed Total Items 54,429 30,889 85,318 -7.0% -1.4% at their finger tips well over 100 million volumes belong- ing to the Ivies and other university partners. The traffic PENN LENDS Titles Copies Total 1-Yr. Chng 5-Yr. Avg in books and articles is on a continental scale, as Figure 21 illustrates. Our reach to information has few if any Interlibrary Loan 14,080 11,575 25,655 -12.2% -3.4% limitations. We fulfill most requests in about three days; Direct Borrowing 39,338 n/a 39,338 -1.6% -0.5% we’ve also worked with our partners to widen the scope of RAPIDº n/a 14,842 14,842 -8.4% 0.5% what’s lendable. And we’re containing the cost of inventory Total Items 53,418 26,417 79,835 -6.5% -5.8% management and shipment in order to grow and sustain resource sharing capabilities for future scholars. † Direct Borrowing services allow users to bypass interlibrary loan and request books directly from the IvyPlus institutions and selected schools in the Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and West Virginia region. º RAPID is an expedited alternative to traditional interlibrary loan for journal articles In the previous year, the volume of resource sharing slowed somewhat due to Penn’s migration to a new system of cataloging and access control. But the long range trend in interlending will continue as the Libraries strive to Figure 18. Items Supplied from Penn’s Collections & Its Partners satisfy Penn’s voracious appetite for scholarly information, through better coordinated collecting patterns, evermore 500,000 rapid supply systems, and the enrichment of catalogs. 450,000

The Ivy Plus BorrowDirect initiative, a computer mediated 400,000 search and request service originally founded by Penn,- Use of Penn’s collections by Penn Columbia and Yale, has changed the trajectory and image 350,000 of resource sharing. BorrowDirect is now an incubator for 300,000 collaborative collecting, workflow redesign, and technology building. It’s also leading the partners into new areas of 250,000 cooperative management and program governance. For Items Circulated our users, BorrowDirect supports something like the “sub- 200,000 stitution effect” familiar in consumer economics, that is, it provides a ready alternative to Penn materials in limited 150,000 Interlibrary lending between Penn and Partners local supply due to demand or other constraints. Figures 100,000 18 and 20 illustrate the substitution effect in action as users and libraries both reach beyond their home collections 50,000 to address demand. Indeed, partnership has become a cost-effective way of avoiding the redundant purchase of 0 titles that perennially receive short-term, intensive use. At 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017 Penn, roughly 45% of our requests through BorrowDirect (see Fig.20) are for materials we own which aren’t available. And that percentage runs even higher for others in The number of countries and provences the cooperative. world-wide to and from which Penn lends 35 and borrows printed and scanned materials

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Figure 19. Trends in Resource Sharing

400%

Figure 21. World-Wide Resource Sharing at Penn 350%

300%

250%

200% Items Circulated

150% Borrow by Penn Lent by Penn Total Transactions 100%

50% 2,194 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017 Items borrowed and lent around the world by Penn

Figure 20. Resources Requested by Ivy Plus Partners [BorrowDirect] Figure 22. BorrowDirect Service by Groups, Penn & IvyPlus

25,000 20,000

wned but not available 15,000 Not owned by borrowing library

Penn 10,000 20,000 5,000

0 15,000 Graduate Undergrad Faculty Staff ther

160,000

Items Borrowed 10,000 120,000

80,000

IvyPlus

5,000 40,000

0 Graduate Undergrad Faculty Staff ther

Yale MIT Penn Brown Duke Hopkins Cornell Harvard Chicago Columbia PrincetonDartmouth

Page 7 Page 8 Research & Teaching Support Figure 23. Relative Use and Capacity of Library Spaces

The term “library” is coming to represent a much wider USE 262144 spectrum of value than it did even a few years ago. Not Van Pelt-Dietrich surprisingly, a substantial portion of the 30 million ser- 131072 Fine Arts vice events charted on page 1 is made up of activities 65536 Dental associated not only with “stackable assets” like books, Museum but also many new and evolving lines of service. Think 32768 Biomedical 3D printing, collaborative teaching, video and digital im- SPACE 16384 age production, letterpress printing, virtual and augment- KCJS 8192 Chemistry ed reality, systematic reviews in healthcare, researcher visitors [log2 Veterinary profiling and research analytics, copyright assistance, 128 256 512 1024 2048 4096 8192 16384 32768 65536 131072 262144 524288 1048576 geographic information systems, data curation, and coding. Think of these and nearly any innovation in aca- 2048 Math/Phys demic work today and the word “library” will increasingly [log2 ft sq in capacity 1024 come to mind. Describing and measuring the emergent meanings of “library” is a challenge that grows with the 1.4m 512 expansion of services. As the future crystalizes, so will visitors used Library 256 the benchmarks and metrics. This page illustrates a por- spaces in 2017 tion of today’s expansion of value-added service, from 128 “evergreens”, like research consulltation to 3D modeling.

Library Instruction and Research Consultation, 2017 [Not including Biddle Law] 625 Library instruction & workshop events 11,522 participants / 780 Sessions 3D prints made for STEM researchers in 2017 Consultations 7,205 Virtual Reference (email, chat, etc) events 9,050

Figure 24. Consultation Sessions by Group and School

Grad/PostDoc Faculty Undergraduate University Clinical Staff

1024

512

256 18,504 128 The number of teaching, study, and collabora- 64 tive learning events held by students, faculty, 32 and staff in library spaces in 2017 16

Consultation Sessions [log2 4

2 304,986 1 Papers and other research objects in the 0.5 Penn Libraries’ VIVO site, part of the Expertise@Penn, researcher profiling SAS GSE SP2 Law SEAS Dental Design WhartonNursing service (vivo.upenn.edu) VeterinaryAnnenberg Page 9 PSM / UPHS Penn Libraries SelectedFacts 2017

Figure 25. World-Wide Downloads from the ScholarlyCommons@Penn Institutions. The worldwide readership of Scholarly- 49,879 Commons@Penn

Figure 26. Additions to the Scholarly Commons@Penn 5,500

5,000

4,500

4,000

Education Commercial Government rganiation Military Library 3,500

3,000

Courseware Users (Biddle Law not included) 2,500 FY17 FY16 FY15 FY14 2,000

1,500

Instructors 6,043 5,845 5,443 4,098 Items Uploaded to the Commons Students 51,452 49,032 46,326 42,372 1,000

500 Basic Course Site Content 0 Assignments 88,629 85,386 83,403 59,789 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017 Discussion Topics 76,564 72,898 66,453 52,026 ETDs Papers Journals/Magaines E-Reserves & Other Files Uploaded 507,375 487,071 427,953 294,320 Media Recordings Students 18,259 23,533 28,038 19,797 Conference/Lecture Materials Videos Data ther genre Courseware: Canvas Sites Created by School [centrally managed service of the Libraries]

FY17 FY16 FY15 FY14 FY13 1-year 5-Year Change Change

Arts & Sciences 3,403 3,028 2,920 2,830 3,327 12.4% 0.6% Wharton 1,076 1,075 947 951 89 0.1% 86.5% Biddle 483 483 458 259 18 0.0% 127.6% Education 414 369 418 494 80 12.2% 50.8% Engineering & Applied Science 325 316 329 321 320 2.8% 0.4% Nursing 221 196 203 213 169 12.8% 6.9% Social Policy & Practice 185 201 182 154 157 -8.0% 4.2% Design 172 156 118 104 118 10.3% 9.9% Annenberg 57 53 61 68 66 7.5% -3.6% Dental 69 38 51 41 65 81.6% 1.5% 11,812 PSOM 4 0 30 15 88 na na Views of video orientations for the Schoen- Total 6,409 5,862 5,717 5,451 4,496 9.3% 9.3% berg collection of manuscripts, part of the teaching mission of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies at the Penn Libraries Page 9 Page 10 Finances Library Expenditures Total 2017 Income: $75,333,698 18 Sources of Funds Penn’s rank in the Schools & Centers...... 88.00% Investment Index of the 126-member Asso- Self-generated...... 6.22% ciation of Research Libraries Endowment...... 3.64% Subvention...... 1.17% Gifts & Grants...... 0.98%

Library Costs Allocated to Schools & Centers

Arts & Sciences 26.60% NB: The Penn Libraries are funded through a system of Responsibility Centered Management (RCM). Each of the Medicine 18.33% University’s twelve schools and its various centers picks up a portion of the tab for information services. The percent- Wharton 11.11% age is determined by an algorithm based on population and course units. This system works to normalize the Libraries’ Law† 6.94% budget, recognizing that library service is a common good to all of Penn’s communities. Engineering 6.93%

Nursing 3.52% Figure 27. Changes in Operational Expenditures, 2103-17

Education 2.86% 1.2 Computing 1.0 Facilities Dental 2.64% Equipment (non-computing) 0.8 Telecom Design 2.60% 0.6 Consortial Dues Shipping Veterinary 2.07% 0.4 Security

Social Policy & Practice 1.32% 0.2 0 Annenberg 1.04%

Pct. Change -0.2 Museum 1.03% -0.4

Hospital [HUP] .57% -0.6

International Programs [Penn Global] .56% -0.8 -1.0 Interdisciplinary 0.07% 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

† Includes the Law School’s direct contribution to its library.

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Penn Libraries SelectedFacts 2017 Expenditure by Category

Compensation $28,619,555 37.99%

Acquisitions $20,202,586 26.82% Figure 30. Serials Expenditures Adjusted for Inflation

Allocated Costs $12,490,000 16.58% $16,000,000 $15,000,000 Renovations $4,793,504 6.36% Serials/Electronic Actual Dollars $14,000,000 Serials/Electronic Adjusted for Inflation Supplies & Services $4,060,184 5.39% $13,000,000 $12,000,000 Computer Services $3,150,071 4.18% $11,000,000 $10,000,000 Bibliographic Utilities $882,438 1.17% $9,000,000 Storage (Rent/O&M) $473,561 0.63% $8,000,000 $7,000,000 Staff Development $288,415 0.38% $6,000,000 $5,000,000 Preservation & Binding $235,923 0.31% $4,000,000 $3,000,000 Equipment $137,462 0.18% ‘99 ‘01 ‘03 ‘05 ‘07 ‘09 ‘11 ‘13 ‘15 ‘17

Figs. 28/29 Library Expenditures, Faculty & Students

$60,000 Figure 31. Book Expenditures Adjusted for Inflation Per Capita, Faculty $50,000 $5,000,000

$40,000 $4,750,000 Books Actual Dollars $4,500,000 $30,000 Books Adjusted for Inflation $4,250,000 $20,000 $4,000,000 $10,000 $3,750,000 $0 $3,500,000

Yale Duke MIT Penn Brown $3,250,000 Harvard ChicagoCornell Princeton Columbia J. Hopkins Dartmouth $3,000,000 $8,000 $2,750,000 $7,000 $2,500,000 Per Capita, Students $6,000 $2,250,000 $5,000 $2,000,000 $4,000 ‘99 ‘01 ‘03 ‘05 ‘07 ‘09 ‘11 ‘13 ‘15 ‘17 $3,000

$2,000

$1,000

Yale Duke MIT Penn Brown Harvard Chicago Cornell Princeton DartmouthJ.Hopkins Columbia Page 12 Information Expenditures Figure 32. Information Expenditures by Category 75% 70% 65% 60% Each year across disciplines, electonic resources command 55% Print Serials a larger share of information spending. The Libraries face 50% the challenge of balancing these digital collection costs with 45% print, which remains for certain communities a central form of 40% scholarly communication. The 70,000+ volumes processed 35% Monographs in 2017 is evidence of that need. It’s an equal challenge 30% 25% to orchestrate the spend by subject area since our usage Electronic data clearly indicate that Penn scholars range quite broadly 20% across subject boundaries (see Figure 9). Pct. of Information Expenditures 15% 10% ther Formats 5% Figures 30 and 31, on the previous page, reflect what’s 0% most probably a brief pause in the upward spiral of publish- ing industry inflation, particularly for serials. Even with that ‘01 ‘03 ‘05 ‘07 ‘09 ‘11 ‘13 ‘15 ‘17 moderation, publishers’ prices continue to climb at a steeper rate than other goods and services, and still out pace library Figure 33. Information Expenditures by Subject budget increases. In response, the Penn Libraries continue to leverage endowment growth, resource sharing, and 38% to a lesser degree, cooperative acquisitions with our peers 36% Social Sciences, including Law Business as strategies for acheiving the margin of excellence in our 34% collections. 32% 30% The unit costs for print books and rates of circulation can 28% vary quite widely across subjects. Figure 35 identifies how 26% Humanities Area Studies efficiently certain subject groups perform in terms of pur- 24% chase price and cost per use. The graph is based on ac- 22% Health Sciences quisition costs and circulation data by Library of Congress 20% classification, from January 2016 to June 2017. The circula- 18% tion counts exclude in-house use. Two variables are plotted: Pct. of Information Expenditures 16% Average Cost Per Use (X axis) and Average Unit Cost (Y Enginieering Science axis). The median lines divide the graph into quadrants. The 14% most “efficient” classes, in terms of these variables, scatter in 12% the lower left quandrant; the remaining plots rise and move to ‘01 ‘03 ‘05 ‘07 ‘09 ‘11 ‘13 ‘15 ‘17 the right as items increase in expense and decrease in use. Medicine and Science, not particularly bookish fields, have Information Expenditures by Category & Subject Area, 2017 a relatively favorable cost per use ratio as a result of fairly strong circulation. The humanities, the most prolific group for Electronic Information 65.2% circulation and the group most connected to the print mono- Monographs 22.5% graph, perform best overall. Serials (for print and e-journals that come bundled with print) 8.3% Other (e.g. scores, slides, audio-visual) 4.0%

Social Sciences, including Law & Business 30.5% Humanities and Area Studies 27.0% Health Sciences 23.5% Engineering and Sciences 18.9%

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Figure 34. Information Expenditures by Category & Subject

Electronic (Serials, E-Books, Databases) Monograph Overview of Penn’s Collection by Format Print Serials ther Forms (e.g.,Audio) 100% Total Volumes [print + E-Book] 8,375,051 90% Physical Volumes 6,540,557 80% Physical Audio 115,473 70% Physical Video 46,671

60% Microforms 4,252,117 Maps 139,570 50% Graphic Materials 1,010,565 40% Number of Electronic Reference Sources 1,851 30% Number of E-Journals 192,034

Expenditures for Information 20% Number of E-Books 1,834,494 10% Number of Locally Digitized and Published Images 3,541,573 0% Documents Available in ScholarlyCommons@Penn 31,412 Health Phys.Sci. Humanities Area Social General Sci. Eng Studies Sci. Streaming Audio Files 54,413 Streaming Video Files 29,849 Digital Penn Projects† 39

†Digital library collections created from Penn’s rare and unique materials, presented on the Figure 35. Cost/Use of Library Books by Subject Class web at www.library.upenn.edu/digitalpenn

Higher Cost/Item Higher Cost/Item Lower Cost/Use Greater -- Lesser Cost Efficiency Higher Cost/Use $150 Figure 36. Print Materials, Multi-year Processing Trend $140 Median

$130 140,000 Law Technology 130,000 $120 Science Medicine 120,000 $110 110,000 Agriculture Social Sci $100 Aux Sci History 100,000 Education Poli Sci General 90,000 $90 Median Geography 80,000 $80 Phil | Psyc | Relig World History 70,000 Information Expenditures by Category & Subject Area, 2017 Military Sci Bibliography $70 Music 60,000

Average Unit Cost Average Naval Sci Items Processed Amer Hist 50,000 Electronic Information 65.2% $60 Fine Arts Language Lit 40,000 Monographs 22.5% $50 30,000 Serials (for print and e-journals that come bundled with print) 8.3% Local Hist U.S. etc $40 20,000 Other (e.g. scores, slides, audio-visual) 4.0% 10,000 $30 0 Social Sciences, including Law & Business 30.5% $20 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017 Humanities and Area Studies 27.0% $34 $68 $102 $136 $170 $204 $238 $272 $306 $340 $374 $408 $442 $476 Health Sciences 23.5% Lower Cost/Item Cost Per Use Lower Cost/Item Lower Cost/Use Higher Cost/Use Engineering and Sciences 18.9%

Page 14 Advancement

Annual Fundraising FY015-FY17 Figure 37. Market Value of Library Endowment Over Time

FY15 FY16 FY17 $110,000,000

Total Raised $6,840,137 $5,696,163 $8,385,283 $100,000,000 Number of Donors 499 785 790 Grants Awarded 7 4 2 $90,000,000

Dollars Awarded $812,583 $489,798 $176,871 $80,000,000

$70,000,000

Library Expendable Endowment $60,000,000 Market Value Number of endowment funds 297 $50,000,000 Market value $101,885,458 $40,000,000 Income from endowment $4,314,735 $30,000,000

$20,000,000 The Decade of Fundraising 2005-17 by Category $10,000,000 Collections [cash and gifts in kind] $41,784,529 Capital $18,848,941 ‘91 ‘93 ‘95 ‘97 ‘99 ‘01 ‘03 ‘05 ‘07 ‘09 ‘11 ‘13 ‘15 ‘17 Fiscal Year Talent $4,192,860 Programs and Services $6,101,483 Figure 38/39. Grants: Size & Frequency of Award Over Time Library Endowments Valued at $1 Million or More $800000

Adolph G. Rosengarten, Jr. Memorial Fund $24,696,257 $600000 Edmund J. Kahn Bookk Fund $9,794,933 $400000 Alumni and Friends Fund $4,217,425 $200000

Dr. Louis A. Duhring Fund $2,869,376 Amount Award $0 Schottenstein-Jesselson Judaica Curatorship $2,204,173 MacDonald Curatorship for Preservation $2,115,549 ‘06 ‘07 ‘08 ‘09 ‘10 ‘11 ‘12 ‘13 ‘14 ‘15 ‘16 ‘17 George Clapp Vaillant Fund $2,050,689 12 Class of 1937 Memorial Reading Room $1,797,091 10 Hazel Hussong Fund $1,790,881 8 Eugene Ormandy Fund $1,635,160 6 Rosengarten International Programs Fund $1,570,240

Grants Awarded Grants 4 Trachtman Memorial Fund $1,515,213 2 Joseph and Helene Blair Fund $1,408,807 ‘06 ‘07 ‘08 ‘09 ‘10 ‘11 ‘12 ‘13 ‘14 ‘15 ‘16 ‘17 Herman V. Ames Fund $1,185,237 Cheney Memorial Fund $1,155,276 R. Jean Brownlee Fund $1,144,794 Library Space, facing page, left to right, top to bottom:

Margy Ellin Meyerson Conservation Fund $1,114,794 Moelis Family Grand Reading Room Steven Miller Conservation Lab Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection Fund $1,073,235 Lippincott Library Seminar Room Yablon Financial Resources Lab Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund $1,062,505 Business Information Desk Class of 1937 Memorial Reading Room Gokhale Library Fund $1,052,163 Class of 1928 Lounge Goldstein Electronic Class Room Jay I. Kislak Endownment $1,029,845 Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund $1,005,568 Page 15 Penn Libraries SelectedFacts 2017

Renewal of Library Spaces: Recent Projects

Page 15 Page 16 Benchmarks & University Indicators Figure 40. Library Staff & Academic Audience, Ivy Plus

32,000

Columbia 28,000

† Cornell Library Expenditures per Faculty and Student, Select ARL Libraries 24,000 Penn Harvard High Median ARL low Penn Rank 2016 (n=116) 20,000 Duke Stanford Mean Library Expenditures per Faculty $60,013 $16,040 $7,767 $23,371 24 16,000 Hopkins Library Expenditures per Student $7,594 $924 $357 $2,175 19 Chicago Yale † MIT 2016 latest available. Excludes national archives and public libraries. Source: Association of Research Libraries 12,000 Princeton Brown

Total Teaching Faculty Students Teaching Total 8,000 Dartmouth Comparative Personnel Ratios, ARL & Penn

4,000 Mean High Median ARL low Penn Rank 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 Library Salaries, Pct. of Total Spending 58.1% 41.7% 30.3% 44.4% 37 Staff (Professional Support)

Professional Staff as Pct. of 76.0% 48.7% 26.0% 47.2% 64 Ratio of Library staff to academic audience Non-student Full-Time Equiv. (FTE) Princeton 3.5% Johns Hopkins 1.5% ARL Rank for Total Staff (FTE) 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 Yale 3.4% Chicago 1.5% Harvard 3.2% Brown 1.5% 18 15 16 18 14 Dartmouth 2.4% Cornell 1.4% Stanford 2.3% Penn 1.4% Duke 1.8% MIT 1.3% Columbia 1.6% Penn's Ranks in the Association of Research Libraries, FY07-16

fy07 fy08 fy09 fy10 fy11 fy12 fy13 fy14 fy15 fy16 ARL Investment Index 20 21 20 16 17 18 17 17 16 18 Figure 41. Library Staff Deployment [full time equivalents] Prof’l + Support Staff 29 21 22 28 19 18 15 15 18 16 175 Wages and Salaries 26 25 24 23 23 20 20 20 16 16 2017 2011

150 Information Expenditures 24 20 22 21 20 24 23 23 17 24 Total Library Expenditures 20 22 19 14 14 18 17 17 16 15 125

100

Staffing, and Salaries, Penn Libraries, 2017 75 Total Full-Time (FTE) Professional Support Student Total

164 174 69 407 50

Professional Staff Salary Beginning Mean 25 $52,500 $75,732

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Figure 40. Library Staff & Academic Audience, Ivy Plus

Figure 42. PhDs Awarded, Ivy Plus Group, 2016 Figure 43. R & D Expenditures, Ivy Plus Group, 2016

800 $2,500,000

700

$2,000,000 600

500 $1,500,000 400

PhDs Awarded 300 $1,000,000 R D Expenditures

200 $500,000 100

0 $0

MIT Yale MIT Yale Penn Duke Penn Duke Brown Cornell Brown Chicago Cornell Harvard Stanford Columbia Stanford Harvard Chicago Princeton Princeton J.Hopkins Dartmouth Columbia J.Hopkins Dartmouth

Figure 44. Library Spending as a PCT of Univ R&D Spending, 2016 Figure 45. Penn Researchers Most Frequently Co-author With...

20% 460,000 Figure 41. Library Staff Deployment [full time equivalents] 440,000 18% 420,000 HARVARD 400,000 16% 240,000 Toronto 14% 220,000 UCLA Michigan 200,000 Univ College London 12% 180,000 Cambridge Berkeley HPKINS xford STANFRD 160,000 CRNELL 10% CHICAG CLUMBIA 140,000 MIT YALE DUKE 120,000 Nwestern 8% Articles Published Total 100,000 ETH Zurich NewYorkU Cal Tech 6% 80,000 Singapore PRINCETN 60,000 4% BRWN 40,000 Carnegie Mellon DARTMUTH 20,000 2% London Sch Econ 0 0% 0

Library Expenditures as a PCT of University RD Expenditures Library Expenditures as a PCT 1,000 2,000 3,000 4,000 5,000 6,000 7,000 8,000 9,000 Yale Duke Penn MIT 10,000 11,000 12,000 Brown Harvard Chicago Cornell Penn Co-authored Articles Princeton Dartmouth Columbia J. Hopkins

Page 17 Page 18 Principal Officers & Advisors

Penn Libraries Board of Overseers

Judith L. Bollinger, Chair Library Administration James Crowley Alexandra S. Cudby H. Carton Rogers Thomas J. Cusack Vice Provost & Director of Libraries Erik D. Gershwind, Vice Chair Brigitte Burris Joseph B. Glossberg, Chair Emeritus Asst. University Librarian for Collections and Liaison Services Scott J. Glosserman, ex officio Kim Eke Sandra Grymes Assoc. University Librarian for Teaching, Research and Learning Services Jeffrey Alan Hechtman Richard Griscom Christine Hikawa, Development Chair Assoc. University Librarian for Collections and Liaison Services Kimberly Louise Hirschman Kim Hoftiezer James Hoesley Director, Human Resources Wendy Commins Holman Emily Morton-Owens Alan S. Jacobs Asst. University Librarian for Digital Library Develoment and Systems Marilyn Kramer Weitzman Kahn David Nerenberg Susanna E. Lachs Director, Financial & Administrative Services Warren N. Lieberfarb William Noel Haniel Jay Lynn Assoc. University Librarian and Director of the Kislak Center Charles K. MacDonald of Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts; Director, Schoenberg Institute Edward P. Mally for Manuscripts Studies Margy Ellin Meyerson Andy Sarno Ellen Moelis Strategic Planning Officer Joshua A. Polan Jon Shaw Eric G. Reiter Assoc. University Librarian for User Services and Resource Management Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg Ruth Sutton Jeffrey L. Seltzer Director of Advancement Peter V. Shoemaker Joe Zucca Rohit Singh, ex officio Assoc. University Librarian for Library Technology Services and Strategic Inititatives Andrew Miles Snyder

Alberto Vitale Candice Wang Willoughby Jill Siegel Yablon

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Pages 9 and 10 Fact checks: Room bookings derived from Springshare’s Libcal Sources and Notes and Microsoft Outlook; 3D modeling data from a Drupal reporting utility developed by Penn (https://3dprint.library.upenn.edu/); and Faculty publications data from Sympletic Elements and VIVO. Figures 25/Map: Digital Commons by bepress courtesy of School abbreviations used in graphs: Google; Figure 26: Data derived from Digital Commons reports. Tabular courseware data taken from the Canvas LMS and Goo- ASC | Annenberg School for Communication gle Tag Manager. GSE | Graduate School of Education PSOM | Perelman School of Medicine Page 12. SAS | School of Arts and Sciences Figures 28 and 29. Student and faculty population data and peer SEAS | School of Engineering and Applied Science expenditure are from the Association of Research Libraries, ARL SP2 | School of Social Policy and Practice Statistics, Stanford University not included.

Page 1. Figures 30 and 31: Serials prices data based on the Library Jour- Figure 1: A simple aggregation of activities that can be measured nal, “Periodicals Price Report”, specifically the “Average Per Title as descrete events. Most of the data derive from the Libraries Cost of an ISI Journal”. Book prices are based on Gobi, Library business platforms, such as web and proxy servers, the Voyager Solutions, “New Book Price and Output Report, 2017”. Library Management System, and electronic gate counts. Page 14. Page 3. Figure 35: Average book prices taken from Gobi, Library Solu- Figures 6 and 7: Per capita measures are based on fall 2017 tions, “Annual Book Price Update, LC Subjects All Publishers”, population data compiled by Penn’s Office of Institutional Re- 2016-17. search and published in Quick Facts: Academic Year 2017-18, http://www.upenn.edu/ir/Quick%20Facts/Quick%20Facts%20 Page 17. Fall%202017%20-%20AY%202018%208.5x11.pdf Data tables of library expenditures, personnel, and ranks, from the Association of Research Libraries, ARL Statistics, 2016 (latest Page 4. available). Also Figure 40. Figure 41: Penn Library Staff Census. Figure 8: Ebook use is based on the COUNTER BR1 report, chapter views. Items charged include all circulate-able material. Page 18. In-house use is not included. All circulation data are derived from Figures 42, 43 and 44: Derived from the National Science Foun- the Voyager Library Management System. dation, “Survey of Earned Doctorates” and “Higher Education Re- search and Development Survey” (HERD). 2016 latest available Figure 10. Degrees and Certifications are from Quick Facts: Ac- data. Figure 45: Author data from the Elsevier Scopus database. ademic Year 2017-18, http://www.upenn.edu/ir/Quick%20Facts/ Quick%20Facts%20Fall%202017%20-%20AY%202018%20 Peer Comparisons: In terms of mission and a wide range 8.5x11.pdf. Student library use data derived from Voyager and of institutional characteristics and collaborations, the IvyPlus EzProxy audit logs. Statistics related to the regression analysis: group comprises the peer cohort for this publication. The group includes:

Brown Harvard University of Chicago Johns Hopkins Columbia MIT Cornell Penn Dartmouth Princeton Duke Stanford Yale

Page 5. Graphs in this publication were created in Origin 2018 and pre- Figures 12 and 13: The graphs are based on Penn-created bib- pared for printing in Adobe Illustrator. Maps, with the exception of liographic records extracted from OCLC using WorldCat Query Figure 25, were generated in Tableau. Colllections, https://www.worldcat.org/. The extract includes the symbols of libraries that derived cataloging from Penn’s original records.

Pages 7 and 8. Resource sharing data in Figures 18,19 and 22, plus the data table were compiled in Penn’s MetriDoc data utility using extracts from the Relais and ILLIAD management systems. Figure 20: Data extracted directly from Relais.

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