Library Statistics

Quick Facts – ARL Statistics – Staff Reports

The following series of reports track essential measurements of the UT Knoxville Libraries over the past six academic years.

Visitors

Research Support

Collections

Loans and Requests

Finances and Personnel

Quick Facts

Downloadable overviews of the statistics are available in a printer-friendly form below.
Libraries-At-A-Glance FY2021

ARL Statistics

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a membership organization of the largest research libraries in North America. The ARL has conducted a major survey on the collections, expenditures, staffing, and service activities of its members annually since 1961. The data thus collected combine with earlier data collected by James Gerould to form a consistent dataset covering 1907 to the present. Tennessee has contributed data to the survey since 1963.

For consistency, UT Knoxville contributes data combining our Knoxville libraries with the libraries of the UT Space Institute and the UT Health Science Center.

Since 2003, ARL has calculated the Library Investment Index, which is “a measure of relative size” and investment among peer institutions that does not serve to measure the quality or success of a library’s services.

Library Investment Index for TENNESSEE (2009-2020)

Fiscal Year	Total Staff	Materials Spending ($)	Prof. Salaries & Wages ($)	Total Library Spending ($)	Index Rank	Rank among U.S. Public Universities
2009	212	12,146,743	5,481,220	23,515,580	56	29
2010	203	11,912,941	4,956,126	22,234,695	59	30
2011	206	15,398,124	4,891,238	26,464,773	48	25
2012	207	12,876,113	5,323,661	24,000,677	56	27
2013	211	14,708,996	5,794,693	26,006,293	50	24
2014	214	14,781,177	5,956,510	26,292,971	49	25
2015	215	14,553,749	6,459,488	27,175,659	45	25
2016	212	14,710,552	6,689,987	27,489,120	47	25
2017	190	15,008,233	7,228,855	29,330,309	42/44	23
2018	196	16,410,751	7,589,470	29,611,059	42	23
2019	204	16,086,455	7,752,499	30,074,049	44	23
2020	209	16,251,653	8,223,896	30,467,831	42	22

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