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Statistics

Statistics are for FY 2009-2010 unless otherwise noted.

  1. Building Use
    • 809,160 Gate Count.   (2008-2009 data. Gate counter malfunctioned in September-November 2009.)
    • 132 Hours Opened per Week.
  2. Personnel
    • 20 Librarians (1.72 per 1,000 Fall 2009 student FTE)
    • 23.75 Support Staff (2.04 per 1,000 Fall 2009 student FTE)
  3. Collections Statistics
    • 2,165,302 Total Items.
      • 468,514 Monographs
      • 30,715 E-Books
      • 34,825 Videos (DVD & VHS)
      • 105,047 Bound Periodical Volumes
  4. Circulation Activity
    • 289,571 Total Checkouts & Renewals
      • 245,113 Checkouts
      • 44,458 Renewals
    • 84,563 General Collection Checkouts
    • 72,414 Media (DVD, CD, VHS) Checkouts
    • 39,208 Laptop Checkouts
    • 3,078  Items Pulled (for holds, document delivery and intra-consortial lending)
  5. E-Resource Usage Statistics
    • 798,395 Number of Sessions/logins
    • 2,846,457 Searches in databases
    • 447,467 Articles Retrieved
    • Approximately 190 electronic databases
  6. Journals
    • Approximately 67,000 Total number of journals available.
    • 42 Subscriptions added or users upgraded.
    • 336Subscriptions cancelled.
    • $2,023,101.59 Total Serials Expenditures, 2009-2010
      • $1,825,497.88 Amount spent on electronic subscriptions.
      • $197,603.71 Amount spent on print subscriptions.
  7. Instruction
    • 437 Sessions Were Offered
    • 9,185 People Received Instruction
      • 6,995 were Undergraduates
  8. Reference
    • 15,464 Reference Transactions (Desk+Remote+NCKnows)
      • 13,734 Transactions at the desk
        • 10,203 in-person
        • 1,292 Transactions over the telephone
        • 471 Transactions through email (libref account)
        • 1,727 Transactions through chat
      • 187 NC Knows Patrons
      • 245 Government Documents Office Transactions
      • 1,298 Remote Reference transactions
  9. Interlibrary Loan
    • 30,599 Transactions
      • 16,396 items borrowed
        • 5,631 borrowed from UNC-system libraries
      • 2,153 items delivered from our collections
      • 12,050 items lent
        • 2,441 items let to UNC-system libraries
  10. Systems
    • 658 Work Order Requests Processed
  11. Government Documents
    • 701,138 Items in the Collections
      • 649,983 US Documents (Hard copy, Microfiche, Maps)
      • 51,155 North Carolina Documents (Hard copy and Microfiche)
    • 4,719 Born-digital Documents Cataloged , 2009-2010
    • 1,226 Documents Circulated, 2009-2010
      • 1,068 US Documents Circulated
      • 158 NC Documents Circulated
    • 245 Reference Transactions from the Documents Office
  12. Special Collections
    • 21,444 Items
      • 532 Manuscript Collections
      • 12,107 Books
      • 5,127 Sound recordings
      • 220 Videos
      • 3,311 Periodical issues
  13. Archives
    • Total # of items in Archives cataloged in library online catalog 10/2010: 10,393
      • Faculty Scholarship Collection items: 5820
      • Honors Papers: 683
      • Graduate Theses/Dissertations: 1846
      • Other books: 1203
      • Serial titles: 94
      • Video recordings: 201
    • No. of linear ft. of processed manuscripts (inventoried and described in online finding aids) 12/1/2010: 962
    • No. of linear ft. of unprocessed manuscripts (accessioned but not yet inventoried/described in finding aids) 12/1/2010: 230
    • No. of processed manuscript collections 12/1/10: 155
    • No. of unprocessed manuscript collections 12/1/10: 111
    • No. of processed A/V items 12/1/10: 524
    • No. of unprocessed A/V items 12/1/10: 941
    • No. of visual oral history interviews by Archives 12/1/10: 122
    • No. of processed oversized, flat items contained in the drawers of 3 map cases or in oversized boxes 12/1/10: 614
    • No. of unprocessed oversized, flat items 12/1/10: not inventoried at this time. Estimate, ca. 50.


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