ABOUT THE LIBRARY
ANY TIME, ANY PLACE
- 28,333 works in the Iowa Repository Online downloaded 1.8 million times
- 1,062,930 electronic books
- 838,640 locally digitized items in 120 Iowa Digital Library collections
- 1.6 million searches of our catalog and resources
- 155 electronic class reserves for students to access at home
- Free electronic delivery of 6,817 articles
- 143 hours per week of service desk assistance during fall/spring semesters
PHYSICAL FACILITIES
- 7 libraries with 2.1 million visitors
- 4.4 million titles
- 3,880 seats and 525 computers
- 131,275 items checked out
- 4 miles of manuscripts
OUTREACH TO IOWANS AND BEYOND
- 501 community borrowing cards
- 7,193 loans to 81 of the 99 counties in Iowa
- Over 40,000 items loaned to others
- 854,500 pages viewed in the Iowa Digital Library
- 3,984,000 web page sessions from visitors in 204 countries
CONTRIBUTING to SUCCESS
TEACHING, LEARNING, and RESEARCH
- 27 subject specialists
- 2,615 books and videos on reserve for classes
- 897 instructional sessions taught by librarians with 17,356 participants
- 20,550 group room reservations
- 41,600 reference questions answered
- 19,800 items borrowed