Campus Statistics Used in Surveys

The Library System at the University of Illinois

Facts for AY2006-2007

37 Campus libraries; largest U.S. engineering library, state-of-the-art agricultural library, and world-renowned Rare Book and Manuscript Library
The University of Illinois Library is one of the largest public university collections in the nation. It’s compilation of more than 10 million volumes is remarkable for its size, diversity, and quality. Self-guided tours of the Main Library and Undergraduate Library are available from the Information Desk on the second floor of the Main Library.
Accessibility and resource sharing are the hallmarks of the University Library system. Use of the University of Illinois Library’s extensive electronic materials (online catalog, bibliographic databases, Library web sites, and web services) includes more than one million items circulated annually and many more accessed on site.
The library system holds more than 24 million items in the main library with a collection of 10,500,000 million volumes.
Number of items circulated - 1.1 million
Number of annual visitors to the online catalog - 53,000,000
Number of reference questions answered - 225,000 per year
Books serial backfiles, and other paper materials (including government documents) - 10,371,460
Current serial subscriptions (print journals) - 63,413
Access to 70,075 electronic journals
Microforms - 8,508,526
E-books –247,242
Audiovisual units - 932,118