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Academic Library Facts for American Library Week

Posted April 18, 2008

Academic librarians answer 72.8 million reference questions each year—almost twice the attendance at college football games.

College libraries receive less than two cents of every dollar spent on higher education.

If the cost of People magazine had risen as fast as the cost of academic library periodicals since 1990, its subscription would cost about $150 per year.

The number of librarians per 1,000 students enrolled in 2 and 4-year colleges and universities in the US dropped from 2.4 in 2000 to less than .5 in 2004.

Sources: ALA Office for Research & Statistics; ALA Public Information Office. http://www.ala.org/ala/issues/toolsandpub/quotablefacts/