Library Facts and Statistics

2009-2010


Collections

 

Total print volumes

1,204,064

Electronic books

275,606

Print electronic serial titles

34,160

Electronic serial titles

38,231

Microforms

1,486,429

Visual recordings

9,033

Sound recordings

3,141

Maps

34,722

Archives and manuscripts (in linear feet)

11,321.86

 

 

Collection Use

 

Circulation and renewal transactions

155,034

Print reserves transactions

17,071

Loans provided to other libraries

17,360

Loans received from other providers

18,383

 

 

Services

 

Total Reference transactions

17,851

Library presentations to groups

708

Persons attending library presentations

13,110

Laptop computers available for check-out

90

Number of times laptops checked out

16,031

 

 

Hours and Spaces

 

Hours open per week

142

Annual Library facilities gate count

1,775,223

Central Library groups study rooms

17

Science and Engineering Library
group study rooms

3

Computer workstations in Library facilities

322

Student uses of the Digital Media Studio

7,221

Faculty uses of the Digital Media Studio

828

Staff uses of the Digital Media Studio

743

 

 

People

 

Librarians and Archivists

45

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.





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