Facts and fig­ures 2003

Gen­er­al in­form­a­tion

  • Opening days per year: 348
  • Opening hours per week (regular opening hours): 100
  • Proportion of closed stacks in %: 10

Build­ing/Equip­ment

  • Gross area in m²: 7.390
    of which user areas: 5.930
  • User workstations: 546
    including computer workstations: 88

In­vent­ory and ad­di­tions

  • Total holdings (monographs, journals, microfiches, CD-ROMs, databases, etc.): approx. 1,31 million media units
    including printed journal subscriptions: 1.892
    including electronic journals: 5.568
    including databases and individual digital documents: 1.168
  • Access to freely available electronic journals: approx. 7.900
  • Newly acquired media: approx. 26.000

Use

  • Active users (= borrowers): approx. 14.600
  • Loans on site:
    approx. 269.000 loans,
    approx. 288.000 volumes. Re-bookings,
    approx. 67.000 reservations
  • Interlibrary loans:
    approx. 41.000 interlibrary loans placing orders and
    approx. 17.000 interlibrary loans taking orders
  • Hits on the local WWW catalogue: approx. 8.470.000
  • Hits on the UB websites: approx. 35.000.000

Staff

  • Library staff according to the staffing plan: 68,5

Edu­ca­tion/train­ing

  • Trained persons: 7
  • Training days of all staff: 214