Facts and fig­ures 2017

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: 9.414
    of which user areas: 7.152
  • User workstations: 620
    including 575 reading workstations (374 individual workstations and 201 group workstations),
    including PC workstations: 45 (30 internet, 13 intranet and 2 multimedia workstations)

In­vent­ory and ad­di­tions

  • Total holdings (monographs, journals, microfiches, CD-ROMs, databases, etc.): approx. 1,8 million media units
    including printed journal subscriptions: 1.050
    including electronic journals: 46.377
    including electronic holdings: 490.440
  • Additional access to freely available electronic journals: 61.027
  • Additional access to freely available databases: 5.408
  • Newly acquired monographs: 13.226
  • Newly acquired e-books: 22.129

Use

  • Library visitors: 1.111.753
  • Active users (= borrowers): 19.400
  • External users: 2.806
  • Local lending:
    343.606 Loans
    1.658.304 Renewals
    2.001.910 Total borrowings
    67.276 Reservations
    344.571 Rebookings
  • Interlibrary loans:
    10.140 positively completed orders for interlibrary loans and
    10.470 positively completed orders for interlibrary loans
  • Searches in the local WWW catalogue: 3.534.737

Staff

  • Library staff according to the staffing plan: 59,18

Edu­ca­tion/train­ing

  • Trained persons: 7
  • Training days of all employees: 103