Facts and figures 2020

In 2020, there were corona-related restrictions in the field of use.

General information

  • Opening days per year: 245
  • Opening hours per week (regular opening hours): 107
  • Proportion of closed stacks in %: 10

Building/Equipment

  • Gross area in m²: 10.214
    of which user areas: 8.046
  • User workstations: 640
    including 604 reading workstations (461 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. 1,88 million media units
    including printed journal subscriptions: 962
    including electronic journals: 70.523
    including electronic holdings: 549.170
  • Additional access to freely available electronic journals: 69.620
  • Additional access to freely available databases: 5.879
  • Newly acquired monographs: 10.449
  • Newly acquired e-books: 33.069

Use

  • Library visitors: 331.314
  • Active users (= borrowers): 14.149
  • External users: 1.885
  • Local lending:
    229.929 Loans
    1.683.818 Renewals
    1.913.747 Total borrowings
    45.391 Reservations
    220.874 Rebookings
  • Interlibrary loans:
    7.424 positively completed orders from lending interlibrary loans and
    5.761 positively completed orders from receiving interlibrary loans
  • Searches in the local WWW catalogue: 3.680.644

Staff

  • Library staff according to the staffing plan: 56,97

Education/training

  • Trained persons: 4
  • Training days of all employees: 98