ABOUT THE LIBRARY
ANY TIME, ANY PLACE
- 20,134 works in the Iowa Repository Online downloaded 1.6 million times
- 1,014,000 electronic books
- 818,885 locally digitized items in 120 Iowa Digital Library collections
- 2.2 million searches of our catalog and resources
- 101 electronic class reserves for students to access at home
- Free desktop delivery of 8,400 articles
PHYSICAL FACILITIES
- 7 libraries with 2.2 million visitors
- 4.4 million titles
- 3,880 seats and 525 computers
- 219,437 items checked out
- 4 miles of manuscripts
OUTREACH TO IOWANS AND BEYOND
- 537 community borrowing cards
- 8,220 loans to 88 of the 99 counties in Iowa
- Over 43,600 items loaned to others
- 1,164,000 pages viewed in the Iowa Digital Library
- Over 547,000 unique visitors from 207 countries viewed 2.3 million web pages
CONTRIBUTING to SUCCESS
TEACHING, LEARNING, and RESEARCH
- 32 subject specialists
- 4,306 circulations of class reserve materials
- 2,768 books and videos on reserve for 563 classes
- 1,075 instructional sessions taught by librarians with 18,049 participants3,030 students collaborating in groups
- 30,377 group room reservations
- 40,647 reference questions answered
- 21,300 items borrowed