Facts & Figures

University Libraries As of Fiscal Year 2017

Collections

  • Volumes (Monographs and Bound Periodicals): 1,489,233
  • Electronic Monographs: 1,790,764
  • Electronic Journals (titles accessible): 189,776
  • Databases: 775
  • Print Journal Subscriptions: 1,177
  • Media Collection: 57,997
  • Archival Collections: 306
  • Print Government Documents - U.S., Virginia, European Union: 310,223
  • Maps: 214,775
  • Microforms (including Government Documents): 2,693,433

Services (Staff-mediated)

  • Circulation (including renewals): 248,465
  • Print/Media Reserves – Courses: 313
  • Print/Media Reserves – Items: 2,388
  • Electronic Reserves: Courses: 233
  • Electronic Reserves – Items: 1,848
  • Inter-campus Delivery: 2,670
  • WRLC Consortium Loan Service – Borrowed: 5,725
  • WRLC Consortium Loan Service – Loaned: 20,574
  • Interlibrary Loan – Borrowed: 5,279
  • Interlibrary Loan – Loaned: 16,109
  • Reference Transactions: 36,872
  • Research Consultations: 2,232
  • Instruction – Sessions: 1,219
  • Instruction – Number of Participants: 20,262

Services (Digital)

  • Digital Access to Resources and Services: 174M
  • Database Searches: 13M
  • e-Journal Accesses: 2M
  • eBooks Accesses: 3.5M
  • Libraries' Website Page Views: 2.7M
  • Online Catalog Page Views: 1M
  • Primo (Discovery) Page Views: 2M
  • Mason Archival Repository Services (MARS) Page Views: 102,000
  • LUNA (Digital asset management system-primarily photographs) Page Views: 37,000
  • Computer Network/Wireless Access: 48M
  • Proxy Server (Off Campus/Remote): 120M

Source: University Libraries