Facts and fig­ures 2006

Gen­er­al in­form­a­tion

  • Opening days per year: 344
  • Opening hours per week (regular opening hours): 100
  • Proportion of closed stacks in %: 10

Build­ing/Equip­ment

  • Gross area in m²: 8.089
    of which user areas: 6.416
  • User workstations: 525
    including 440 reading workstations (250 individual workstations and 190 group workstations),
    including PC workstations: 85 (55 internet, 28 intranet and 2 multimedia workstations)

In­vent­ory and ad­di­tions

  • Total holdings (monographs, journals, microfiches, CD-ROMs, databases, etc.): approx. 1,33 million media units
    including journal subscriptions in printed form: 1.931
    including electronic journals: 19.633
    including electronic holdings (digital documents and databases): 2.886
  • Additional access to freely available electronic journals: approx. 10.400
  • Additional access to freely available databases: approx. 1.940
  • Number of media procured: approx. 20.000

Use

  • Library visitors: approx. 1.262.400
  • Active users (= borrowers): approx. 16.800
  • External users: approx. 3.400
  • Loans on site:
    approx. 324.000 loans,
    approx. 335.000 volumes returned,
    approx. 43.000 reservations
  • Interlibrary loans:
    approx. 15.300 positively completed orders for interlibrary loans and
    approx. 16.200 positively completed orders for interlibrary loans.
  • Hits on the local WWW catalogue: approx. 19.000.000
  • Hits on the UB websites: approx. 23.000.000

Staff

  • Library staff according to the staffing plan: 65,5

Edu­ca­tion/train­ing

  • Trained persons: 14
  • Training days of all staff: 208