Cites & Insights 13:3 (March 2013) available

[Walt Crawford]

Cites & Insights 13:3 (March 2013) is now available for downloading at
http://citesandinsights.info/civ13i3.pdf.

The issue is 32 pages long. For those reading online or on a tablet or
ebook reader, the single-column “online edition” is available at
http://citesandinsights.info/civ13i3on.pdf. The single-column (6×9)
version is 67 pages long.

Note: If you don’t plan to print this issue out, the single-column
version may be preferable: Graphs and tables take advantage of the
wider single column.

This issue includes the following:
The Front  (pp. 1-3)

    On the Contrary: Notes on being a contrarian (or a skeptic)

Libraries: Academic Library Circulation: Surprise!  (pp. 3-17)

    We all know that circulation in (nearly all) academic libraries
has been dropping for years, right? What does (nearly all) mean? Would
you believe that a majority of U.S. academic libraries reporting
circulation in both 2008 and 2010 (excluding clearly anomalous cases)
actually had more circulation in 2010 than in 2008? This article looks
at changes in circulation (overall and per capita) by type of library
(as broken down in NCES reports–by region, sector, and Carnegie
classifications), and also shows the difference between overall
average, average of institutional averages, and median
figures–frequently surprising differences.

Media: 50 Movie Box Office Gold, Part 2 (pp. 17-26)

    Seven discs, 28 movies, all color, some I refused to finish watching.

Libraries: Academic Library Circulation, Part 2: 2006-2010  (pp. 26-32)

    Was the period from 2008 to 2010 (2010′s the most recent NCES
report) anomalous? This study compares circulation (overall and per
capita) between FY2006 and FY2008, FY2006 and FY2010 and FY2008 and
FY2010, breaking things down in the same categories as part 1, but
this time showing the percentage of libraries with significantly
growing circulation, significantly shrinking circulation, and
circulation staying about the same. (Overall, 40% grew significantly
from 2006 to 2010 and 50.6% shrank significantly; 37.9% grew in per
capita circulation and 54.6% shrank significantly–where I defined
“significant” as 2.5% over two years or 5% over four years.)

The April issue will not be heavy on original research and statistics.
Come May, we’re probably back to public libraries…but that’s a long
way away!

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2013-02-11