CDL: Percentage of Research Overhead Receipts (more response)

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All,

   Do any of your academic libraries receive a fixed percentage
of the university's research overhead receipts and if so
what is that approximate percentage?   If you would like
to respond directly to me, I will summarize the data
for the list w/o reference to a particular institution.

Thanks,

John P. Abbott
Appalachian State University

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8/29/04

	We have just gotten this piece added to our materials budget as of 
2002 and we now get 5% annually of the indirect costs sent to the 
colleges. This has obviously been a budget boon, with the amount 
generated running at about $400,000 yearly.
         This arrangement was approved by the Deans' Council 
unanimously, although there was some debate over the amount of the 
percentage. As of this semester, however, we have a new university 
president, who is suggesting that a lesser amount of the IDC will go 
to the colleges and more kept at central university administration. 
This would affect the amount from which our percentage draws.
         We are a Carnegie I, land grant university,  medium-size with 
12,750 FTE and graduate enrollment at about 2500.
           It is odd that this concept is so readily accepted by some 
universities and completely dismissed by others.