Facts and fig­ures 2011

Gen­er­al in­form­a­tion

  • Opening days per year: 350
  • Opening hours per week (regular opening hours): 107
  • Proportion of closed stacks in %: 10

Build­ing/Equip­ment

  • Gross area in m²: 8.346
    of which user areas: 6.635
  • User workstations: 533
    including 450 reading workstations (260 individual workstations and 190 group workstations),
    including PC workstations: 83 (53 internet, 28 intranet and 2 multimedia workstations)

In­vent­ory and ad­di­tions

  • Total holdings (monographs, journals, microfiches, CD-ROMs, databases, etc.): approx. 1,745 million media units
    including printed journal subscriptions: 1.327
    including electronic journals: 49.782
    including electronic holdings: 398.848
  • Additional access to freely available electronic journals: 33.197
  • Additional access to freely available databases: 3.516
  • Newly acquired monographs: 16.782
  • Newly acquired e-books: 17.720

Use

  • Library visitors: 1.215.978
  • Active users (= borrowers): 18.940
  • External users: 3.820
  • Local lending:
    343.827 Loans
    1.525.628 Renewals
    1.869.455 Total borrowings
    86.044 Reservations
    345.431 Rebookings
  • Interlibrary loans:
    14.802 positively completed orders for interlibrary loans and
    15.640 positively completed orders for interlibrary loans
  • Hits on the local WWW catalogue: 23.377.867
  • Hits on the UB websites: 26.754.577

Staff

  • Library staff according to the staffing plan: 58,84

Edu­ca­tion/train­ing

  • Trained persons: 6
  • Training days of all employees: 191