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La Sierra University

Library Details
    General Information
  • Library Hours Per Week: 80
  • Visitors to the Library Per Week: 1,901
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    Electronic Services
  • Documents are Digitized by Staff
  • Reference Services Available by Email and/or Web
 
Staff Information
Total Staff21
Number of Full-Time Librarians4
All Other Paid Staff7
Student Assistants10
Collection Types
Books and Materials
Added During the School Year3,756
Held at the End of the Year261,629
 
Electronic Books & Material (E-Books)
Held at the End of the Year29,154
 
Microforms
Added During the School Year35
Held at the End of the Year381,941
 
Audio Visual (AV)
Added During the School Year65
Held at the End of the Year10,702
 
Serial Subscriptions
Held at the End of the Year1,072
 
Electronic Reference Sources and Aggregation Services
Held at the End of the Year113
Services
Interlibrary Loans and Documents
Loans Provided1,747
Returnable1,616
Non-Returnable131
 
Loans Received1,967
Returnable1,757
Non-Returnable210
 
Library Circulation Transactions
General Circulation14,643
Reserve Circulation2,284
Reference Transactions (Per Week)95
 
Library Sponsored Presentations
Number of Presentations41
Total Attendance at All Presentations1,074
Expenditures
Library Staff Salary, Wages and Benefits
Total Salaries$521,259
Librarians and Professional Staff$209,218
Other Paid Staff$240,086
Student Assistants$71,955
Employee Fringe Benefits$155,904
 
Library Material and Operating Expenditures
Total Expenditures$765,910
Books and Materials$133,602
Serial Subscriptions$161,918
Electronic Serial Subscriptions$95,670
Maintaining and Preserving Archival Material$13,165
Computer Hardware and Software$17,997
Bibliographic Utilities, Network, Consortia$52,805
Other Operating Expenditures$290,753
 
Source: NCES Academic Libraries - FY 2006