37.5% of U.S. and Canadian Law Libraries Decreased their Budgets in 2013 (Report Highlights)

2014 edition Law Library Benchmarks from Primary Research Group is now available. It’s a fee-based report.
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From PRG

The report presents data from 60 law libraries from the United States and Canada including law firm libraries, university law libraries, courthouse libraries, private company libraries and others, with data presented separately for each library type. The data is also broken out by library and parent institution size. The law firms in the sample employed a mean of 188 lawyers. A list of survey participants is available on our website.

Highlights From the Report

• For 37.5% of survey participants, the overall library budget decreased in 2013.

• The courthouse libraries in the sample had the largest budget decreases, a mean of 7.25%.

• Libraries in the sample spent a mean of $320,931 on online databases in 2013; spending is expected to increase slightly in 2014 to $330,688, or by about 3.3%.

• The materials/content budget is nearly evenly split between print resources and electronic resources; the former accounted for a mean of 50.52% of the budget, the latter 49.48%.

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