Facts and fig­ures 2005

Gen­er­al in­form­a­tion

  • Opening days per year: 349
  • Opening hours per week (regular opening hours): 100
  • Proportion of closed stacks in %: 10

Build­ing/Equip­ment

  • Gross area in m²: 8.058
    of which user areas: 6.416
  • User workstations: 552
    including 467 reading workstations (275 individual workstations and 192 group workstations),
    including PC workstations: 85 (54 internet, 29 intranet and 2 multimedia workstations)

In­vent­ory and ad­di­tions

  • Total holdings (monographs, journals, microfiches, CD-ROMs, databases, etc.): approx. 1,32 million media units
    including printed journal subscriptions: 1.865
    including electronic journals: 12.686
    including e-books: approx. 14.700
  • Additional access to freely available electronic journals: 13.314
  • Access to databases and individual digital documents in the UB network: approx. 2.460
  • Newly acquired media: approx. 25.000

Use

  • Active users (= borrowers): approx. 16.300
  • External users: approx. 4.000
  • Loans on site:
    approx. 332.000 loans,
    approx. 312.000 volumes returned,
    approx. 50.000 reservations
  • Interlibrary loans:
    approx. 16.700 positively completed orders for interlibrary loans and
    approx. 16.600 positively completed orders for interlibrary loans.
  • Hits on the local WWW catalogue: approx. 15.000.000
  • Hits on the UB websites: approx. 22.000.000

Staff

  • Library staff according to the staffing plan: 65,5

Edu­ca­tion/train­ing

  • Trained persons: 14
  • Training days of all employees: 252