Released ARL has released the 1996-97 issue of its series that describes the law and medical libraries of ARL universities. This new edition reports data on the collections, staffing, expenditures, and public service activities of 74 law and 60 medical libraries.
Specific tables report the trends of monograph and serial prices in law and medical libraries.
Trend data for the growth of collections, expenditures, and interlibrary loan activities are also included. This year's report again compares law and medical libraries to the larger research collections in each research university. The law and medical library data are aggregated in the annual ARL Statistics, a compilation of statistics from the member libraries of the Association of Research Libraries. The availability of this separate report provides the necessary data to disaggregate law and medical library statistics to make institutional comparisons more meaningful. Also available are previous issues of the law and medical statistics, which cover the years 1977 to 1995.