Facts & Figures – FY2020
Library Building
- Hours open in a typical week: 111
Staff Profile
- Librarians: 27
- Staff: 31
- Student assistants (part-time): 68
Collections Profile
- Physical Collections: 1,073,769
- Books: 1,014,259
- Media: 33,976
- Serials: 25,534
- Digital Collections: 1,673,414
- e-books: 1,339,107
- Databases: 627
- Streaming media: 226,610
- Digital serials: 107,070
- Local digital collections
- Items in Scholarship@Claremont, our institutional repository: 14,976
- Digital files added to Digital Library: 10,221
Use
- Physical collections (books and media): 27,028
- Special Collections materials: 2,332 (fall 2019 only)
- E-books and Streaming Media: 4,561,413
- E-journals and Databases: 3,346,906
- Research and publications downloaded from Scholarship@Claremont: 972,104 items
- Inter-library loan:
- Items borrowed/received from other libraries: 9,994
- Loans to other libraries: 19,166
Research & Instruction Services
- Research appointments: 982
- Virtual reference (chat and e-mail): 2,939
- Library instruction
- Classes taught: 391
- Total attendance: 6,583