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Grinnell College Libraries Facts and Statistics Sheet

Statistics are for FY2007

 

Facilities:

Burling Library

  • Constructed 1959
  • Renovated 1982
  • Square feet - 60,739

Kistle Science Library (Noyce Science Center)

  • Constructed 2007
  • Square feet - 10,553

Curriculum Library (Steiner Hall)

Offsite Storage Facility

Automated system:

Installed 1989

Innovative Interfaces, Inc.

Circulation:

Total circulation - 56,003

Reserves circulation:

Paper: 8,608

Electronic: 39,342

Collections:

Volumes - 750,289 (includes government documents)

Serials titles received (paper & microform) - 2,863

Serials titles received (electronic) - 19,315

Audiovisual units - 32,117

(47% Federal Government documents depository)

Computers:

Burling Library

  • PCs (Windows) - 34
  • Macs - 10
  • Wireless access throughout building

Kistle Science Library (Noyce Science Center)

  • Dual boot PC/Macs - 14
  • Wireless access throughout building

Electronic Classroom (Interactive Instructional Facility-IIF)

PC stations - 11

Mobile tables - 3

Instructor unit - 1

LCD projector

Elmo overhead projector

VCR

DVD player

LaserDisc player

Wireless microphone

Laser pointer

Networked laser printer

Flat-bed scanner

Robotel M160

Gate count (typical week):

4,112

Acquisitions expenditures:

$1, 549, 984

Hours of operation:

Per week - 109

Reference hours per week - 63

Interlibrary loan:

Borrowed - 4,547

Provided - 2,870

Personnel:

Professional - 8

Support - 13

Annual student hours - 17,844

Imaging services:

Burling

  • Photocopy machines - 3
  • Flatbed scanners - 2
  • Microfiche readers - 4
  • Microfilm readers - 4
  • Microprint readers - 1
  • Microform reader/digital scanner - 1

Kistle Science Library (Noyce Science Center)

  • Photocopy machines - 1
  • Flatbed scanners - 1

(Xerox digital photocopiers include: Pioneer card vend units, coin vending units, and a departmental code reader)

 

 

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