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UO LIBRARIES - QUICK FACTS

A snapshot of the UO Libraries as of June 30, 2009


Facilities:
  • Knight Library (main library)
    • Center for Media and Educational Technologies
    • Special Collections and University Archives
  • John E. Jaqua Law Library
  • Science Library
    • Mathematics Library
    • Rippey Library (Oregon Institute of Marine Biology in Charleston)
  • Architecture and Allied Arts Library
    • Visual Resources Collection (slides and digital images)
  • Portland Library and Learning Commons


Finances:
Fiscal Year '09 Expenditures
% change from
previous fiscal year
Unclassified staff
$4,157,964
 11%
Classified staff
 $3,080,170
 7%
Students
 $905,791
 9%
Other payroll expense
 $4,042,573
 12%
Collection purchases
 $3,172,377
 -11%
Access to information content*
$3,281,537
 0%
Technology
 $752,866
 -19%
Other supplies and services
 $637,192
 -1%
Staff development, travel
 $146,091
 -15%
Total expenditure
 $20,176,561
 3%



Endowments:
  • The libraries have 68 endowments (or quasi-endowments)             
    • 5% increase
  • The market value of these was $16 million as of 06/30/09
    • 16% decrease


Collections:                                                                
% change from previous fiscal year
Print volumes
     (books, serials, gov docs)  
3,083,407 1%
Microforms
           
4,162,266 0%
Audio and Video items
     		112,034 5%
Cartographic materials
     (revised count this year) 		781,668
 0%
Manuscripts and archives
     (linear feet)                 
74,656
 0%
Graphic materials
     (photos, slides, ect.)
 1,326,973
 1%
Electronic books                          
267,893
 1%

Current acquisitions:
% change from
previous fiscal year
Monographs Purchased
(July 1, 2008 - June 30, 2009)		 16,761 -25%
Gross volumes added
(includes gifts & print serials)
  49,261
 -16%
Electronic databases
 310
 -3%
Current serial titles
Print only=6,559, Electronic=40,320 		46,879
 0%

 

Technology: 



 % change from
previous fiscal year
                                
Public computers in the libraries (includes classrooms
  321
 15%
Laptops available for student checkout (moved to Science Library
61
 24.5%
Library catalog, public interface: WorldCat Local (OCLC, Inc.)

Library catalog, technical platform: Millennium
(Innovative Interfaces, Inc.)


Human resources: 
increase or decrease from
previous fiscal year
Faculty (Officers of Administration)
72 FTE
 2 FTE
Classified staff 82 FTE
 -5 FTE
Student staff (including GTFs)
 63 FTE
 3 FTE
Average number of students employed
(headcount)
 285
 -13



Usage:
% change from
previous fiscal year
Initial circulation (excluding reserves)
 208,918
 0%
Reserve circulation (print, audio, video)
 52,630
 -3%
Electronic reserves usage
 69,051
 -19%
Total circulation
(includes renewals and reserves)
 402,316
 -2%
Virtual visits to the UO Libraries' web site
 4,935,482
 7%
Electronic full-text articles retrieved from licensed resources
2,211,115
16%
Number of times items accessed in locally produced digital collections
1,873,546
53%
Door count - typical week, Fall Term 2008
 52,103
 23%
Reference questions answered
 50,761
 -11%
Classroom instruction, presentations
 703
 36%
Classroom instruction, participants
 11,925
 20%
Items borrowed from other libraries
 58,336
 -6%
Items loaned to other libraries
 67,678
 -16%


Memberships:

  • Association of Research Libraries
  • Coalition for Networked Information
  • SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition)
  • Council on Library and Information Resources
  • Public Library of Science (PLoS)
  • Freedom to Read Foundation (of the American Library Association)
  • OCLC (Online Computer Library Center)
  • Center for Research Libraries
  • Pacific Rim Digital Library Alliance
  • Greater Western Library Alliance
  • Orbis Cascade Alliance


For additional information, contact:
Nancy Slight-Gibney
Director, Library Resource Management & Assessment
Knight Library Room 115E
1299 University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon 97403-1299
(541) 346-1831 (voice), (541) 346-3485 (fax)

Maintained by: Nancy Slight-Gibney, nsg@uoregon.edu
Last Modified: 10/20/2009