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The Library In Numbers
Annual statistics for August 2023 to July 2024:
- Print stock (books on shelves): 635,599 *this excludes duplicate copies and is instead the total number of unique print titles held.
- E-books available: 686,827
- Study spaces: 1,279
- Desks with PCs: 441
- Loanable laptops: 156
- Total number of unique loans (physical items borrowed): 61,282
- Total number of users entering the library: 362,775
- Full-text article accessed by our users: 2,424,856
- Print books added to collection: 928
- E-books added to collection: 2,552
- Person-hours of digital/information literacy training received by users: 9,428.67
- Live chats: 344
- Number of interlibrary loans requests sent to other libraries: 1,869
Annual statistics for August 2022 to July 2023:
- Print stock (books on shelves): 637,441 *this excludes duplicate copies and is instead the total number of unique print titles held.
- E-books available: 521,699
- Study spaces: 1,223
- Desks with PCs: 441
- Loanable laptops: 156
- Total number of unique loans (physical items borrowed): 55,684
- Total number of users entering the library: 419,855 *based on number modelling due to incomplete data (faulty gate counter).
- Full-text article accessed by our users: 1,888,653
- Print books added to collection: 1,098
- E-books added to collection: 7,318
- Person-hours of digital/information literacy training received by users: 10,599.81
- Live chats: 361
- Number of interlibrary loans requests sent to other libraries: 1,010
Annual statistics for August 2021 to July 2022:
- Printstock (books on shelves): 1,190,392
- E-books available: 550,158
- Study spaces: 1,223
- Desks with PCs: 441
- Loanable laptops: 156
- Total number of unique loans (items borrowed): 38,203
- Total number of users entering the library: 268,226
- Full-text article accessed by our users: 1,797,440
- Print books added to collection: 2,531
- E-books added to collection: 2,354
- Person-hours of digital/information literacy training received by users: 8,728.95
- Live chats: 668
- Number of interlibrary loans requests sent to other libraries: 1,097
Annual statistics for August 2020 to July 2021:
- Printstock (books on shelves): 1,187,861
- Book requests: 468,873
- Study spaces: 1,423
- Desks with PCs: 311
- Loanable laptops: 156
- Total number of unique loans (items borrowed): 14,881
- Total number of users entering the library: 29,242
- Full-text article accessed by our users: 1,884,720
- Print books added to collection: 330
- E-books added to collection: 28,973
- Person-hours of digital/information literacy training received by users: 8,993.5
- Live chats: 1,358
- Number of interlibrary loans requests sent to other libraries: 1,384
Annual statistics for August 2019 to July 2020:
- Printstock (books on shelves): 1,187,531
- Book requests: 187,150
- Study spaces: 1,423
- Desks with PCs: 263
- Loanable laptops: 156
- Total number of unique loans (items borrowed): 89,785
- Total number of users entering the library: 426,411
- Full-text article accessed by our users: 1,494,325
- Print books added to collection: 5,423
- E-books added to collection: 3,436
- Person-hours of digital/information literacy training received by users: 13,180.7
- Live chats: 2,214
- Number of interlibrary loans requests sent to other libraries: 2,344
