Facts and figures 2015

General information

  • Opening days per year: 348
  • 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: 614
    including 542 reading workstations (343 individual workstations and 199 group workstations),
    including PC workstations: 72 (46 internet, 24 intranet and 2 multimedia workstations)

Inventory and additions

  • Total holdings (monographs, journals, microfiches, CD-ROMs, databases, etc.): approx. 1,775 million media units
    of which journal subscriptions in printed form: 1.127
    of which electronic journals: 49.909
    of which electronic holdings: 447.186
  • Additional access to freely available electronic journals: 52.690
  • Additional access to freely available databases: 4.702
  • Newly acquired monographs: 13.713
  • Newly acquired e-books: 9.180

Use

  • Library visitors: 1.224.632
  • Active users (= borrowers): 20.784
  • External users: 3.147
  • Local lending:
    402.389 Loans
    1.731.677 Renewals
    2.134.066 Total borrowings
    85.667 Reservations
    403.793 Rebookings
  • Interlibrary loans:
    13.524 positively completed orders from lending interlibrary loans and
    13.553 positively completed orders from receiving interlibrary loans
  • Search queries in the local WWW catalogue: 3.308.775
  • Queries on the UB websites: 9.111.864

Staff

  • Library staff according to the staffing plan: 59,60

Education/training

  • Trained persons: 9
  • Training days of all employees: 266