Facts and fig­ures 2013

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: 9.523
    of which user areas: 7.123
  • User workstations: 607
    including 522 reading workstations (323 individual workstations and 199 group workstations),
    including PC workstations: 85 (51 internet, 32 intranet and 2 multimedia workstations)

In­vent­ory and ad­di­tions

  • Total holdings (monographs, journals, microfiches, CD-ROMs, databases, etc.): approx. 1,75 million media units
    including printed journal subscriptions: 1.262
    including electronic journals: 43.976
    including electronic holdings: 425.720
  • Additional access to freely available electronic journals: 44.607
  • Additional access to freely available databases: 5.068
  • Newly acquired monographs: 16.359
  • Newly acquired e-books: 9.022

Use

  • Library visitors: 1.147.197
  • Active users (= borrowers): 19.465
  • External users: 3.099
  • Local lending:
    362.216 Loans
    1.539.229 Renewals
    1.901.445 Total borrowings
    90.139 Reservations
    357.737 Rebookings
  • Interlibrary loans:
    12.677 positively completed interlibrary loan requests and
    12.292 positively completed interlibrary loan requests
  • Search queries in the local WWW catalogue: 13.612.201
  • Queries on the UB websites: 19.949.911

Staff

  • Library staff according to the staffing plan: 58,58

Edu­ca­tion/train­ing

  • Trained persons: 7
  • Training days of all employees: 174