Opening hours per week (regular opening hours): 107
Proportion of closed stacks in %: 10
Building/Equipment
Gross area in m²: 8.346 of which user areas: 6.635
User workstations: 533 including 450 reading workstations (260 individual workstations and 190 group workstations), including PC workstations: 83 (53 internet, 28 intranet and 2 multimedia workstations)
Inventory and additions
Total holdings (monographs, journals, microfiches, CD-ROMs, databases, etc.): approx. 1,745 million media units including printed journal subscriptions: 1.327 including electronic journals: 49.782 including electronic holdings: 398.848
Additional access to freely available electronic journals: 33.197
Additional access to freely available databases: 3.516
Newly acquired monographs: 16.782
Newly acquired e-books: 17.720
Use
Library visitors: 1.215.978
Active users (= borrowers): 18.940
External users: 3.820
Local lending: 343.827 Loans 1.525.628 Renewals 1.869.455 Total borrowings 86.044 Reservations 345.431 Rebookings
Interlibrary loans: 14.802 positively completed orders for interlibrary loans and 15.640 positively completed orders for interlibrary loans
Hits on the local WWW catalogue: 23.377.867
Hits on the UB websites: 26.754.577
Staff
Library staff according to the staffing plan: 58,84