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*ALCTS Publications Spotlight*
*Library Materials Price Index (LMPI) *The annual index tracking the prices
of print and electronic monographs and serials.
http://www.ala.org/alcts/mgrps/cmtes/ats-lmpi
Have you ever found yourself in a new position where you had to develop a
materials budget and didn't know where to look to get a sense of prices and
trends? Since its inception in 1959, the Library Materials Price Index
(LMPI) has been providing librarians with valuable, reliable sources of
data to assist them in the creation and development of library materials
budgets. A service of ALCTS Publications, the LMPI is published as an
article in *The* *Library and Book Trade Almanac* under the title: "Prices
of U.S. and Foreign Published Materials."
The price indices are essential tools in these days of extremely strapped
budgets. They provide the data needed to justify budget increases and
requests for supplemental funds. Each year's article discusses changes in
the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and trends in the various fields of
publication.
The current article is a rich source of data, broken down by U.S. and
foreign published materials as well as by the material types, including but
not limited to:
U.S. Periodicals
U.S. Hardcover Books
North American Academic Books
North American Academic E-Books
British Academic Books
U.S. Mass Market Paperback Books
U.S. Paperbacks (Excluding Mass Market)
U.S. Audiobooks
U.S. E-Books
Average Prices of Serials
Average Prices of Online Serials
Of particular note is the first table, newly reestablished as U.S.
Periodicals: Average Prices and Price Indexes, 2010-2014 (USPPI). This
index, compiled by Stephen Bosch (University of Arizona) with the
assistance of Kittie Henderson (EBSCO Information Services), contains a mix
of both online and print serials prices with a title list of more than
5,500 titles.
Articles are available electronically after a one year embargo, beginning
with 1999. As an added benefit, the LMPI editorial board has released the
2014 data in spreadsheet form. The past articles and the 2014 spreadsheets
are available via the ALA Institutional Repository (ALAIR) at
https://alair.ala.org/handle/11213/514.
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Received on Thu Jan 28 2016 - 11:52:40 EST