Document Type
Article
Date of Original Version
7-7-2011
Abstract
This report lists the total amounts invoiced to the University of Rhode Island Libraries by the bibliographic utility Lyrasis (formerly NELINET) during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2011.
Costs are broken down by invoice date and category and include all library locations (RIN, RIU, and RIX). Each charge appears three times next to each invoice number, once for each location. We pay three fixed monthly fees for each location: one for cataloging (FIX1002), one for interlibrary loan (FIX4500), and one for access (FIX6600). The access fee covers all activities that are listed on the report as costing $0.00.
Total Lyrasis expenditures for FY11 were $61,431.06.
A breakdown of selected expenditures is as follows:
Fixed monthly cataloging subscription, all locations, total for year -- $31,190.34
Fixed monthly interlibrary loan subscription, all locations, total for year -- $17,749.93
Fixed monthly access subscription, all locations, total for year -- $14,630.34
Lyrasis membership -- $2,450.00
Education -- $325.00
Cataloging credits -- ($6,707.60)
ILL borrowing fees -- $3,431.45
ILL credits -- ($1,638.70)
Lyrasis product usage FY11 spreadsheet