Opening hours per week (regular opening hours): 107
Proportion of closed stacks in %: 10
Building/Equipment
Gross area in m²: 8.198 of which user areas: 6.487
User workstations: 521 including 440 reading workstations (261 individual workstations and 179 group workstations), including PC workstations: 81 (51 internet, 28 intranet and 2 multimedia workstations)
Inventory and additions
Total holdings (monographs, journals, microfiches, CD-ROMs, databases, etc.): approx. 1,77 million media units including printed journal subscriptions: 1.276 including electronic journals: 55.407 including electronic holdings: 435.943
Additional access to freely available electronic journals: 39.051
Additional access to freely available databases: 3.768
Newly acquired monographs: 15.608
Newly acquired e-books: 36.550
Use
Library visitors: 1.159.805
Active users (= borrowers): 19.322
External users: 3.819
Local lending: 340.905 Loans 1.328.576 Renewals 1.669.481 Total borrowings 79.592 Reservations 338.673 Rebookings
Interlibrary loans: 14.622 positively completed orders for interlibrary loans and 15.055 positively completed orders for interlibrary loans
Hits on the local WWW catalogue: 21.733.218
Hits on the UB websites: 20.869.596
Staff
Library staff according to the staffing plan: 60,05