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Academic Libraries Survey, 2012
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The 2012 Academic Libraries Survey (ALS:2012) is a study that is part of the Academic Libraries Survey (ALS) program; public-use program data are available since 1996 at https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/libraries/aca_data.asp. ALS:2012 (https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/libraries/academic.asp) is a cross-sectional survey that summarize services, staff, collections, and expenditures of academic libraries in degree-granting postsecondary institutions in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. This study provides information pertinent to libraries at degree-granting postsecondary educational institutions.
Detailed Methodology
The survey universe is comprised of all 2- and 4-year degree-granting postsecondary institutions with a library. This survey file contains final data on 4,176 academic libraries in the 50 states and the District of Columbia and 85 academic libraries in the outlying areas for the 2012 Academic Libraries Survey. The outlying areas include American Samoa, Federal State Micronesia, Guam, Marshall Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Palau, Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands. The unit response rate among these institutions was 85.3 percent.
The ALS survey was released on the web on November 9, 2012. The survey had a due date of February 28, 2013, although it was extended to April 15, 2013. Data are collected and processed for NCES by the Census Bureau, Governments Division. For the 2012 Web-based data collection, state-level library coordinators were available to promote prompt responses from librarians.