Facts and figures 2021

In 2021, there were corona-related restrictions in the field of use.

General information

  • Opening days per year: 248
  • Opening hours per week (regular opening hours): 107
  • Proportion of closed stacks in %: 10

Building/Equipment

  • Gross area in m²: 10.163
    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)
  • 11 individual workspaces

Inventory and additions

  • Total holdings (monographs, journals, microfiches, CD-ROMs, databases, etc.): approx. 2,07 million media units
    including printed journal subscriptions: 900
    including electronic journals: 70.983
    including electronic holdings: 725.045
  • Additional access to freely available electronic journals: 81.542
  • Additional access to freely available databases: 6.139
  • Newly acquired monographs: 13.790
  • Newly acquired e-books: 175.057

Use

  • Library visitors: 144.810
  • Active users (= borrowers): 11.412
  • External users: 1.340
  • Local lending:
    174.861 Loans
    1.641.301 Renewals
    1.816.62 Total borrowings
    33.840 Reservations
    178.262 Rebookings
  • Interlibrary loans:
    7.045 positively completed interlibrary loan requests and
    5.571 positively completed interlibrary loan requests
  • Searches in the local WWW catalogue: 3.357.007

Staff

  • Library staff according to the staffing plan: 55,52

Education/training

  • Trained persons: 4
  • Training days of all employees: 106