Mathematics Research Libraries at the End of the Twentieth Century

    A report on the 1996 AMS-IMS-MAA Survey

    August 1997

    The first AMS survey of mathematics research libraries was conducted in 1990 ( Notices of the AMS, December 1991, 1258--1262). This is a report on the second library survey, which was run in the fall of 1996 and early 1997. The Canadian Mathematical Society participated in the 1996 survey.

    The report was prepared by N. D. Anderson (ndanders@uiuc.edu), K. Dilcher (dilcher@cs.dal.ca), and J. Rovnyak (rovnyak@Virginia.EDU). It is 28 pages in length and available in three formats:

  • postscript version (352 K)

  • dvi version (106 K)

  • acrobat 3.0 version (194 K)

    • The above report does not include budget data. Many institutions have allowed their budget figures to be made public. A report prepared by Martha Tucker (mtucker@u.washington.edu) that contains budget figures can be found at this site:

  • Link to budget data

    • The survey was a project of the AMS Library Committee, which wrote the questionnaire:

    Blank questionnaire, page 1 (208 K)

    Blank questionnaire, page 2 (199 K)

    Blank questionnaire, page 3 (175 K)

    Blank questionnaire, page 4 (160 K)