Facts and figures 2019

General information

  • Opening days per year: 346
  • Opening hours per week (regular opening hours): 107
  • Proportion of closed stacks in %: 10

Building/Equipment

  • Gross area in m²: 10.493
    of which user areas: 8.308
  • User workstations: 651
    including 604 reading workstations (472 individual workstations and 132 group workstations),
    including PC workstations: 47 (29 internet, 16 intranet and 2 multimedia workstations)

Inventory and additions

  • Total holdings (monographs, journals, microfiches, CD-ROMs, databases, etc.): approx. 1,84 million media units
    including printed journal subscriptions: 983
    including electronic journals: 71.015
    including electronic holdings: 515.448
  • Additional access to freely available electronic journals: 68.900
  • Additional access to freely available databases: 5.842
  • Newly acquired monographs: 13.824
  • Newly acquired e-books: 12.888

Use

  • Library visitors: 1.046.902
  • Active users (= borrowers): 18.671
  • External users: 2.525
  • Local lending:
    330.543 Loans
    1.561.888 Renewals
    1.892.431 Total borrowings
    56.954 Reservations
    319.161 Rebookings
  • Interlibrary loans:
    8.666 positively completed orders for interlibrary loans and
    9.105 positively completed orders for interlibrary loans
  • Search queries in the local WWW catalogue: 4.017.061

Staff

  • Library staff according to the staffing plan: 63,11

Education/training

  • Trained persons: 6
  • Training days of all employees: 139