About us
Recently Bielefeld University Library was assessed second best in the nationwide CHE university ranking - a numerical overview of the Bielefeld University Library:
- 2,200,000 volumes
- 1,400,000 loans and renewals per year
- 34,000 visitors per week
- 32,000 active registered users
- 17,000 licensed electronic journals
- 4,000 journal subscriptions
- 3,800 databases
- 2,050 workstations for readers
- 1,400 psychological tests
- 529 years - the age of the oldest book in our collection
- 500 library tuitions with 9,000 participants
- 165 public PC-workstations for users
- 133 metres above sea level (1st floor)
- 111 opening hours per week
- 95 percent of the holdings on open shelves
- 22 departmental libraries
- 15 rooms for team work, equipped with 4 SMART Boards
Sources: Deutsche Bibliotheksstatistik (DBS) 2010 and others
