Facts and Figures 2022 – 2023
Library Building
- Hours open in a typical week: 111
Number of Staff
- Librarians: 29
- Staff: 29
- Student assistants (part-time): 40
Items Available
- Physical Collections: 1,034,422
- Books: 995,780
- Media: 13,862
- Serials: 24,780
- Digital Collections: 2,328,306
- e-books: 1,912,398
- Databases: 550
- Streaming media: 270.915
- Digital serials: 144.443
- Local digital collections
- Items in Scholarship@Claremont, our institutional repository: 16,997
- Digital files added to Digital Library: 1,207
Items in Use
- Physical collections (books and media): 15.847
- Special Collections materials: 2,332 (Fall 2019, update coming soon)
- E-books and Streaming Media: 202,765
- E-journals and Databases: 890,497
- Research and publications downloaded from Scholarship@Claremont: 999,684 items
- Interlibrary loan:
- Items borrowed/received from other libraries: 14,017
- Loans to other libraries: 4,891
Research & Instruction Services
- Research & Instruction Services
- Research appointments: 1,121
- Virtual reference (chat and e-mail): 2,982
- Library instruction : 442
- Classes taught: 440
- Total attendance: 6,881