Facts and fig­ures 2009

Gen­er­al in­form­a­tion

  • Opening days per year: 346
  • Opening hours per week (regular opening hours): 107
  • Proportion of closed stacks in %: 10

Build­ing/Equip­ment

  • Gross area in m²: 8.353
    of which user areas: 6.635
  • User workstations: 528
    including 444 reading workstations (254 individual workstations and 190 group workstations),
    including PC workstations: 84 (53 Internet, 29 Intranet and 2 multimedia workstations)

In­vent­ory and ad­di­tions

  • Total holdings (monographs, journals, microfiches, CD-ROMs, databases, etc.): approx. 1,72 million media units
    including printed journal subscriptions: 1.505
    including electronic journals: 19.155
    including electronic holdings: 378.744
  • Additional access to freely available electronic journals: 23.451
  • Additional access to freely available databases: 2.882
  • Newly acquired monographs: 23.522
  • Newly acquired e-books: 7.045

Use

  • Library visitors: 1.131.531
  • Active users (= borrowers): 17.700
  • External users: 3.600
  • Local lending:
    350.326 Loans
    1.409.203 Renewals
    1.930.870 Total borrowings
    54.046 Reservations
    352.923 Rebookings
  • Interlibrary loans:
    12.976 positively completed orders for interlibrary loans and
    14.752 positively completed orders for interlibrary loans
  • Hits on the local WWW catalogue: 24.660.370
  • Hits on the UB websites: 27.863.874

Staff

  • Library staff according to the staffing plan: 57,78

Edu­ca­tion/train­ing

  • Trained persons: 9
  • Training days of all employees: 137