Facts and figures 2016

General information

  • Opening days per year: 351
  • Opening hours per week (regular opening hours): 107
  • Proportion of closed stacks in %: 10

Building/Equipment

  • Gross area in m²: 9.414
    of which user areas: 7.152
  • User workstations: 637
    including 565 reading workstations (366 individual workstations and 199 group workstations),
    including PC workstations: 72 (47 Internet, 23 Intranet and 2 multimedia workstations)

Inventory and additions

  • Total holdings (monographs, journals, microfiches, CD-ROMs, databases, etc.): approx. 1,79 million media units
    including printed journal subscriptions: 1.080
    including electronic journals: 45.644
    including electronic holdings: 467.871
  • Additional access to freely available electronic journals: 56.342
  • Additional access to freely available databases: 5.136
  • Newly acquired monographs: 16.084
  • Newly acquired e-books: 20.171

Use

  • Library visitors: 1.127.786
  • Active users (= borrowers): 19.889
  • External users: 2.884
  • Local lending:
    367.302 Loans
    1.692.914 Renewals
    2.060.216 Total borrowings
    75.750 Reservations
    372.982 Rebookings
  • Interlibrary loans:
    10.829 positively completed orders from lending interlibrary loans and
    12.646 positively completed orders from receiving interlibrary loans
  • Searches in the local WWW catalogue: 3.285.876

Staff

  • Library staff according to the staffing plan: 63,26

Education/training

  • Trained persons: 9
  • Training days of all employees: 214