ANALYSIS OF SELECTED VARIABLES - Master of Arts
ACRL LIBRARY DATA TABLES 2000
ANALYSIS OF SELECTED VARIABLES
INSTITUTIONS GRANTING MASTER OF ARTS AND PROFESSIONAL DEGREES (CARNEGIE CODE M)
					Libraries
Category	High	Mean	Median	Low	Reporting
1. Professional staff as percent of Total Staff	88.89	32.82	31.87	4.00	465
2. Support Staff as percent of Total Staff	89.29	35.25	34.94	4.17	456
3. Student Assistant Staff as percent of Total Staff	87.50	33.23	31.90	4.42	442
4. Ratio of Professional to Support Staff	5.00	1.09	0.91	0.12	450
(excluding student Assistant Staff)
5. Ratio of Items Loaned to Items Borrowed	114.55	1.81	1.11	0.09	422
6. Serial Expenditures as percent of	98.13	48.62	48.02	6.00	488
Total Library Materials Expenditures
7. Total Library Material Expenditures	56.77	34.25	34.85	4.13	179
as percent of Total Library Expenditures
8. Contract Binding	4.47	0.87	0.80	0.03	167
as percent of Total Library Expenditures
9. Salary and Wages Expenditures	87.77	56.81	56.58	16.76	179
as percent of Total Library Expenditures
10. Other Operating Expenditures	42.34	7.97	6.16	0.00	178
as percent of Total Library Expenditures
11. Unit cost of monographs (per volume)	343.26	41.27	38.62	5.03	382