Facts and fig­ures 2012

Gen­er­al in­form­a­tion

  • Opening days per year: 351
  • Opening hours per week (regular opening hours): 107
  • Proportion of closed stacks in %: 10

Build­ing/Equip­ment

  • Gross area in m²: 8.198
    of which user areas: 6.487
  • User workstations: 521
    including 440 reading workstations (261 individual workstations and 179 group workstations),
    including PC workstations: 81 (51 internet, 28 intranet and 2 multimedia workstations)

In­vent­ory and ad­di­tions

  • Total holdings (monographs, journals, microfiches, CD-ROMs, databases, etc.): approx. 1,77 million media units
    including printed journal subscriptions: 1.276
    including electronic journals: 55.407
    including electronic holdings: 435.943
  • Additional access to freely available electronic journals: 39.051
  • Additional access to freely available databases: 3.768
  • Newly acquired monographs: 15.608
  • Newly acquired e-books: 36.550

Use

  • Library visitors: 1.159.805
  • Active users (= borrowers): 19.322
  • External users: 3.819
  • Local lending:
    340.905 Loans
    1.328.576 Renewals
    1.669.481 Total borrowings
    79.592 Reservations
    338.673 Rebookings
  • Interlibrary loans:
    14.622 positively completed orders for interlibrary loans and
    15.055 positively completed orders for interlibrary loans
  • Hits on the local WWW catalogue: 21.733.218
  • Hits on the UB websites: 20.869.596

Staff

  • Library staff according to the staffing plan: 60,05

Edu­ca­tion/train­ing

  • Trained persons: 10
  • Training days of all employees: 181