Facts and figures 2022

In 2022, there were corona-related restrictions in the field of use.

General information

  • Opening days per year: 323
  • Opening hours per week (regular opening hours): 105,5
  • Proportion of closed stacks in %: 10

Building/Equipment

  • Gross area in m²: 10.163
    of which user areas: 8.046
  • User workstations: 603
    including 535 reading workstations (455 individual workstations and 80 group workstations),
    including PC workstations: 47 (30 internet, 15 intranet and 2 multimedia workstations)
  • 11 individual workstations

Inventory and additions

  • Total holdings (monographs, journals, microfiches, CD-ROMs, databases, etc.): approx. 2,33 million media units
    including printed journal subscriptions: 804
    including electronic journals: 65.716
    including electronic holdings: 988.260
  • Additional access to freely available electronic journals: 76.518
  • Additional access to freely available databases: 6.137
  • Newly acquired monographs: 10.802
  • Newly acquired e-books: 262.197

Use

  • Library visitors: 316.640
  • Active users (= borrowers): 10.974
  • Registered users: 30.530
  • Registered external users: 8.268
  • Local lending:
  • 146.812 Loans
    1.160.118 Renewals
    1.306.930 Total loans
    34.804 Reservations
    159.372 Reversals
  • Interlibrary loans:
    5.591 positively completed orders for interlibrary loans and
    4.179 positively completed orders for interlibrary loans
  • Searches in the local WWW catalogue: 3.383.661

Staff

  • Library staff according to the staffing plan: 56,31

Education/training

  • Trained persons: 8
  • Training days of all employees: 209,63