The University Library in figures

Media and specialised information services

Total holdings of printed media: 3,435,342
Manuscripts and autographs: 4,050
Incunabula: 3,456
Rare books: 13,529
Literary remains: 167
Available databases and individual electronic documents: 1,758,106
Available electronic journals (titles): 174. 279
AV media (analogue and digital): 46,188
Micromaterials by individual items: 638,414
Maps and plans (number of sheets): 37,029
Sheet music: 4,562
Works recorded in the institutional repository FreiDok plus: 247,054,
of which references with full-text access: 36,970,
of which references to research data (records): 168

Resources

Total expenditure on acquisitions: EUR 6,718,150
Expenditure on acquisitions of electronic media: EUR 2,605,005
Expenditure on serials: EUR 2,606,477
Expenditure on open access publications & transformation contracts: EUR 3,416,426
Access to media items, conventional: 17,206
Access to media items, digital: 23,359
Non-electronic journals held in circulation (titles): 1,066
Serialised electronic journals (titles): 86,131

Operation

Opening hours: 119 hours per week
User workstations: 1,752
Computer workstations: 107
Library visits: 3,121,212
Items borrowed: 473,424
Active borrowers: 12,857

Promoting Information literacy

Attendees at library user training sessions: 6.571
User training sessions (hours): 2.034
Calls to the library's e-learning offerings: 20.552

Media centre

Audiovisual editing suites: 12
Studios: 4 (1 film studio, 2 radio studios, 1 recording studio)
Training spaces: 26

Staff

Full-time equivalents (FTEs) according to the University Library’s staff appointment scheme (not including peripheral libraries): 96,81
Full-time equivalents (FTEs) according to the University Library’s staff appointment scheme (peripheral libraries): 34,78
Apprentices/interns (person months): 56,45

Academic libraries on campus

Number of academic libraries: 59
Number of printed media holdings: 1.841.340
Subscriptions to journals (titles) in non-electronic format: 2.172
Expenditure for acquisition (at peripheral libraries): EUR 947.568

Last updated: 1 January 2025
Source: Deutsche Bibliotheksstatistik (German Library Statistics) and our own calculations

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