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Physical Books [title counts] (include government documents) (line 40, column (1))

Report physical book titles owned or leased by the library if individual titles are catalogued and/or searchable through the library catalog or discovery system. Exclude serials, microfilms, maps, nonprint materials, and uncatalogued items. Include music scores if searchable by title through the library catalog or discovery system. Include government documents that are accessible through the library's catalogs regardless of whether they are separately classified and/or shelved. "Cataloged" includes documents for which records are provided by the library or downloaded from other sources into the library's card or online catalogs.
Additional survey guidance:
- Government documents include local, state, regional, federal and international.
- Include open access (OA) titles if the individual titles are searchable through the library’s catalog or discovery system.

Physical Books, volume counts (line 40a, column (1))

IPEDS discontinued the reporting of physical volume counts in 2016. ACRL understands that there is trend analysis value for this long-standing measure. Therefore, if available:
Report the number of volumes using the ANSI/NISO Z39.7-2013 (section 4) definition for volume, which is as follows: “a single physical unit of any printed, typewritten, handwritten, mimeographed, or processed work, distinguished from other units by a separate binding, encasement, portfolio, or other clear distinction, which has been cataloged, classified, and made ready for use, and which is typically the unit used to charge circulation transactions. Either a serial volume is bound or it comprises the serial issues that would be bound together if the library bound all serials.” Include duplicates and bound volumes of periodicals and music scores. For the purposes of the ACRL survey, unclassified bound serials arranged in alphabetical order are considered classified. Exclude microfilms, maps, nonprint materials, and uncataloged items. Include all government document volumes if individual titles are searchable through the library’s catalog or discovery system regardless of whether they are separately shelved. "Classified" includes documents arranged by Superintendent of Documents, CODOC, or similar numbers. "Cataloged" includes documents for which records are provided by the library or downloaded from other sources into the library's online catalog or discovery system.
Additional survey guidance:
- Include serial volumes.
- The reported counts for line 40a will not be used in the sum to fill in Total Physical Collections line 44, column (1).

Digital/Electronic Books (include government documents) (line 40, column (2))
Report e-book titles owned or leased by the library if individual titles are cataloged and/or searchable through the library catalog or discovery system. E-books are digital documents (including those digitized by the library), licensed or not, where searchable text is prevalent, and which can be seen in analogy to a printed book (monograph). Include e-book titles in aggregated sets in which the library selected the aggregator even if not each individual e-book title. Report the number at the administrative entity level; do not duplicate unit count for each branch. Include government documents, locally digitized electronic books and electronic theses and dissertations. Include digital music scores if searchable by title through the library catalog or discovery system. Include open access (OA) titles if the individual titles are searchable through the library’s catalog or discovery system, except do not count e-book titles from HathiTrust, Center for Research Libraries, Internet Archive, and similar collections unless the library owns the digitized item and it is accessible under current copyright law. Do not include titles in Demand-Driven Acquisition (DDA) or Patron-Driven Acquisition (PDA) collections until they have been purchased by the library.
Additional survey guidance:
- Count e-book titles regardless of the number of users.
- If possible, do not report duplicate titles even if the titles are in two or more databases or services. Report the titles based upon the cataloged bibliographic record rather than holdings records attached to the bibliographic record.
- A dissertation database such as ProQuest Dissertation & Theses Database is reported as a database.