Facts and figures 2008

General information

  • Opening days per year: 350
  • 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: 528
    including 444 reading workstations (254 individual workstations and 190 group workstations),
    including PC workstations: 84 (53 internet, 29 intranet and 2 multimedia workstations)

Inventory and additions

  • Total holdings (monographs, journals, microfiches, CD-ROMs, databases, etc.): approx. 1,71 million media units
    including printed journal subscriptions: 1.779
    including electronic journals: 21.980
    including electronic holdings: 370.035
  • Additional access to freely available electronic journals: 23.420
  • Additional access to freely available databases: 2.646
  • Newly acquired monographs: 18.159

Use

  • Library visitors: 1.157.825
  • Active users (= borrowers): 17.400
  • External users: 3.600
  • Local lending:
    365.273 Loans
    1.597.181 Renewals
    1.962.454 Total borrowings
    41.785 Reservations
    368.151 Rebookings
  • Interlibrary loans:
    13.755 positively completed orders for interlibrary loans and
    15.726 positively completed orders for interlibrary loans
  • Hits on the local WWW catalogue: 23.378.369
  • Hits on the UB websites: 23.128.198

Staff

  • Library staff according to the staffing plan: 58,62

Education/training

  • Trained persons: 6
  • Training days of all staff: 168,2