2011-2012
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Collections |
|
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Total print volumes |
1,208,411 |
|
Electronic book (unique titles) |
320,524 |
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Print serial unique titles (currently received) |
37,479 |
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Electronic serial unique titles (currently received) |
39,245 |
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Microform pieces |
1,483,541 |
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Visual recordings |
8,881 |
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Sound recordings |
3,245 |
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Maps and cartographic items |
39,503 |
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Archives and manuscripts (in linear feet) |
11,972.59 |
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Collection Use |
|
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Circulation and renewal transactions |
104,078 |
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Print reserves transactions |
12,418 |
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|
|
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Loans provided to other libraries |
14,976 |
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Loans received from other providers |
12,918 |
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Services |
|
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Total Reference transactions |
15,820 |
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Library presentations to groups |
612 |
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Persons attending library presentations |
12,985 |
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Laptop computers available for check-out |
83 |
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Number of times laptops checked out |
15,905 |
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Hours and Spaces |
|
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Hours open per week |
142 |
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Annual Library facilities gate count |
1,763,161 |
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Central Library groups study rooms |
18 |
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Science and Engineering Library group study rooms |
3 |
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Computer workstations in Library facilities |
302 |
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Student uses of the Digital Media Studio |
4,520 |
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Faculty uses of the Digital Media Studio |
498 |
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Staff uses of the Digital Media Studio |
339 |
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People |
|
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Librarians and Archivists |
47 |
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Other staff |
73 |
Did you know?
The 1835 broadsheet ¡¡¡Libertad, Constitución, y Federation!!! was the one millionth volume added to the Library’s collections in 1996. It appealed to the citizens of Texas and Coahila to resist General Santa Anna.
The oldest map in the Virginia Garrett Cartographic History Library, is Secunda etas mundi; secunda etas müdi (the second age of the world), and was published in 1493 in Nuremberg, Germany, by Hartman Schedel. It is also the Library's oldest published item.
