Fast Facts - Statistical Highlights 2003-2004 - The University Libraries

Fast Facts - Statistical Highlights

The University Libraries include Jackson Library and the Music Library in the School of Music, and the catalog includes the holdings of the Teaching Resource Center in the School of Education and the Multicultural Resource Center.
The University Libraries’ collections total more than 2.47 million books, federal and state documents, microforms, and other formats. The bound volume total now stands at 1,132,918. We added more than 39,000 volumes, microtexts and documents to the collections during the year. We subscribe to approximately 3600 serial publications in paper form, more than 30,000 full-text electronic journals, and more than 308,000 electronic books.
More than 960,000 people visited the Library last year to use our collections, databases, and services. “Virtual” visitors accessed our World-Wide Web pages more than 23 million times.
We have created and maintain over 5,000 unique Web pages and scripts containing over 3 gigabytes of data on subjects ranging from University Archives and Special Collections to new books to databases of our electronic journal holdings.
The Library purchases access to more than 343 databases with titles ranging from Abstracts in Anthropology to Wharton Research Data Services and maintains an online subject list of electronic databases by academic discipline. Access to many requires a current UNCG ID. Database usage increased to more than 959,000 sessions, an increase of more than 366% since 2000.
We answered over 72,000 reference and research questions and provided more than 475 subject-specific and general classes, consultations, and tours to more than 12,000 University students, faculty, staff, and members of the community.
Any computer with access to the Internet or to the campus computer network can connect to the Library’s resources via the World-Wide Web. Altogether, there are now over 300 computers in the Libraries.
The Friends of the Library has 531 individual and corporate members, who donated a combined $37,500 to support the University Libraries.
Jackson Library’s Journal Finder product has been adopted by 39 other institutions of higher education, serving more than 200,000 students and extending our service throughout the state and beyond.
The Carolina Consortium, organized by Jackson Library, enables academic libraries in North Carolina and South Carolina to use their bulk purchasing power to obtain favorable pricing on a variety of electronic resources that are of significant interest to the scholarly community. In 2006 the Carolina Consortium included more than 125 community colleges, public universities, and private institutions of higher learning. The total amount the members paid to participate in the consortium deals was over 150 million dollars less than if the member institutions had each paid independently.