Indicator 10.1
Association of Research Libraries Rankings of Campus Libraries - UC and Comparison Institutions, 2005 to 2007
| 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berkeley | 6 | 5 | 5 |
| Davis | 53 | 60 | 64 |
| Irvine | 82 | 75 | 68 |
| Los Angeles | 8 | 6 | 7 |
| Merced | -- | -- | -- |
| Riverside | 93 | 93 | 95 |
| San Diego | 39 | 41 | 37 |
| San Francisco | -- | -- | -- |
| Santa Barbara | 81 | 78 | 83 |
| Santa Cruz | -- | -- | -- |
| U of Illinois | 7 | 16 | 13 |
| U of Michigan | 5 | 7 | 6 |
| SUNY at Buffalo | 63 | 62 | 65 |
| U of Virginia | 22 | 19 | 24 |
| Harvard | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| MIT | 76 | 55 | 51 |
| Stanford | -- | -- | -- |
| Yale | 2 | 2 | 2 |
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is a nonprofit organization of 123 research libraries at comprehensive, research-extensive institutions in the U.S. and Canada that share similar research missions, aspirations and achievements.
The ranking shown above is an index that the ARL calculates as a summary measure of relative size among the university library members of the Association.
Critics of the ranking have stated that it fails to account for digital assets, an increasingly important component of research libraries. The ARL rankings also fail to account for the transformative effect of membership in a consortium. Scholars at any one of the three UC campuses that are not ARL institutions - Merced, San Francisco, and Santa Cruz - can and do access the libraries of all the other UC campuses through online services and interlibrary loan.
Source: Association of Research Libraries. Additional information can be found at http://www.arl.org/.
Stanford withdrew from the ARL in 2004.
You may view or download a table of the raw data used to generate these charts in CSV files, which can be opened in spreadsheet programs such as Microsoft Excel or OpenOffice.