Facts and figures 2007

General information

  • Opening days per year: 345
  • Opening hours per week (regular opening hours): 107
  • Proportion of closed stacks in %: 10

Building/Equipment

  • Gross area in m²: 8.280
    of which user areas: 6.635
  • 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. 1,7 million media units
    including printed journal subscriptions: 1.903
    including electronic journals: 22.075
    including electronic holdings: 362.531
  • Additional access to freely available electronic journals: 15.925
  • Additional access to freely available databases: 2.242
  • Newly acquired monographs: 18.663

Use

  • Library visitors: 1.254.755
  • Active users (= borrowers): 17.200
  • External users: 3.500
  • Local lending:
    351.305 loans,
    355.828 returns,
    1.438.074 renewals,
    35.424 reservations
    2.180.631 transactions
  • Interlibrary loans:
    14.400 positively completed orders for interlibrary loans and
    16.300 positively completed orders for interlibrary loans
  • Hits on the local WWW catalogue: 21.511.227
  • Hits on the UB websites: 20.963.023

Staff

  • Library staff according to the staffing plan: 59,57

Education/training

  • Trained persons: 11
  • Training days of all employees: 162