Facts and fig­ures 2023

Gen­er­al in­form­a­tion

  • Opening days per year: 345
  • Opening hours per week (regular opening hours): 105,5
  • Proportion of closed stacks in %: 10

Build­ing/in­sti­tu­tion

  • Gross area in m²: 10,195
    of which user areas: 8,046
  • User workstations: 595
    including 525 reading workstations (449 individual workstations and 76 group workstations),
    including PC workstations: 59 (30 internet, 16 intranet, 10 scanner, 1 microform and 2 multimedia workstations)
  • 11 individual workspaces

In­vent­ory and ad­di­tions

  • Total holdings (monographs, journals, microfiches, CD-ROMs, databases, etc.): approx. 2.37 million media units
    of which journal subscriptions in printed form: 832
    of which electronic journals: 65,656
    of which electronic holdings: 1,024,023
  • Additional access to freely available electronic journals: 79,416
  • Additional access to free databases: 6,111
  • Newly acquired monographs: 11,793
  • Newly acquired e-books: 34,926

Util­isa­tion

  • Library visitors: 489,276
  • Active users (= borrowers): 14,424
  • Registered users: 22,953
  • Registered external users: 2,119
  • Local loans:
    111,598 Loans
    656,271 Renewals
    767,869 Total loans
    44,460 Reservations
    114,635 Returns
  • Interlibrary loans:
    5,028 positively completed requests for interlibrary loans and
    4,106 positively completed requests for interlibrary loans
  • Search requests in the local WWW catalogue: 3,735,950

Per­son­nel

  • Library staff according to staffing plan: 58

Edu­ca­tion/train­ing

  • Trained persons: 8
  • Training days for all employees: 107