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