Hey! It's National Library Week

What have Libraries been up to lately?

• there are an estimated 117,418 libraries of all kinds in the United States today
• there are about 3,658 Academic Libraries (one of them is yours)
• total gate count for all of these libraries in one week of Fall 2000 was 16.5 million visitors
• FY 2000 academic libraries processed 194.0 million circulation transactions
• FY 2000 there were 25 libraries that said they were open 24/7 (your library opens at 8am and stays open 'til midnight Sun- Thur; and 10pm Fri-Sat)
• there were about 1.6 million reference transactions in a typical Fall week in 2000
• librarians did about 432,000 presentations to various groups in 2000 (don't miss the next time your local librarian is there to show you what's new, or how we can make your research easier)
• inventories totalled 193.5 million volumes: 43% were held by 4% of the institutions
• 95,665 FTEs: 32% were librarians; 40% were other paid staff; 28% were student assistants (there are 38 staff in your library, and there is more than one of us at any one time thinking about how to make things better for YOU)
• total expenses in 2000 were $5 billion, of which $1.1 billion was paper and electronic subscriptions (your Library is working on making electronic the way to go)
• 99% of academic libraries has Internet access (I would think that's 100% now!)
• 73% had library reference services by email (yuh huh! ysnlib@yale.edu or janene.batten@yale.edu ; or you can even Ask! live - the online reference desk)
• 98% had instruction by staff on how to use the Internet (see my blog for next class)
• in 2000 49% provided electronic document delivery to patrons (we do that ....)

Got Library?

You sure have.

Just ask us about how we are making it better for you.