Facts and fig­ures 2018

Gen­er­al in­form­a­tion

  • Opening days per year: 349
  • Opening hours per week (regular opening hours): 107
  • Proportion of closed stacks in %: 10

Build­ing/Equip­ment

  • Gross area in m²: 10.568
    of which user areas: 8.146
  • User workstations: 664
    including 618 reading workstations (395 individual workstations and 223 group workstations),
    including PC workstations: 46 (30 internet, 14 intranet and 2 multimedia workstations)

In­vent­ory and ad­di­tions

  • Total holdings (monographs, journals, microfiches, CD-ROMs, databases, etc.): approx. 1,811 million media units
    including printed journal subscriptions: 1.015
    including electronic journals: 48.592
    including electronic holdings: 501.289
  • Additional access to freely available electronic journals: 63.187
  • Additional access to freely available databases: 5.470
  • Newly acquired monographs: 16.140
  • Newly acquired e-books: 10.287

Use

  • Library visitors: 1.070.154
  • Active users (= borrowers): 18.958
  • External users: 2.658
  • Local lending:
    338.839 Loans
    1.555.583 Renewals
    1.894.422 Total borrowings
    60.382 Reservations
    331.211 Rebookings
  • Interlibrary loans:
    10.332 positively completed orders for interlibrary loans and
    11.069 positively completed orders for interlibrary loans
  • Searches in the local WWW catalogue: 3.950.728

Staff

  • Library staff according to the staffing plan: 60,87

Edu­ca­tion/train­ing

  • Trained persons: 11
  • Training days of all staff: 121