ABOUT THE LIBRARY
ANY TIME, ANY PLACE
- 14,350 works in the Iowa Repository Online downloaded 1.5 million times
- 900,865 electronic books
- 744,900 locally digitized items in 109 Iowa Digital Library collections
- 2.3 million searches of our catalog and resources
- 326 electronic class reserves for students to access at home
- Free desktop delivery of 8,409 articles
PHYSICAL FACILITIES
- 7 libraries with 2 million visitors
- 4 million titles
- 4,200 seats and 352 computers
- 192,800 items checked out
- 4 miles of manuscripts
OUTREACH TO IOWANS AND BEYOND
- 523 community borrowing cards
- 8,896 loans to 89 of the 99 counties in Iowa
- Over 42,000 items loaned to others
- 722,200 pages viewed in the Iowa Digital Library
- Over 623,000 unique visitors from 205 countries viewed 2.7 million web pages
CONTRIBUTING to SUCCESS
TEACHING, LEARNING, and RESEARCH
- 38 subject specialists
- 5,100 circulations of class reserve materials
- 2,537 books and videos on reserve for 424 classes
- 954 instructional sessions taught by librarians with 18,150 participants
- 25 personal librarians for first year students in Living-Learning Communities
- 103,576 students collaborating in groups
- 30,678 group room reservations
- 52,000 reference questions answered
- 20,900 items borrowed