Facts & Figures

Collections

print and electronic collections exceeding 5.2 million titles and over 7.5 million volumes including:

• more than 120,000 scholarly ejournals across disciplines from a wide range of publishers
• over 1.31 million ebooks accessible via a variety of formats
• over 1,100 online databases
• over 43,000 items in ERA: Education & Research Archive, UAlberta’s institutional repository
• over 45 hosted open access journals
• over 3,800 research data files available in Dataverse
• more than 120,000 digitized books, 67,000 newspaper issues, and 20,000 images and maps related to the Canadian prairies and beyond

Spaces

• Over 6,100 seats in 10 locations
• over 700 Windows and over 150 Mac workstations , equipped with a wide range of browsers and office productivity software
• over 85 bookable study and practice presentation rooms varied in size and setup
• designated common, quiet and silent areas, which have everything from individual carrels and comfortable soft seating to silent, technology free zones and large quiet reading rooms
• a 24/7 study space, on the lower and first levels of Cameron Library
• 98 PC laptops, 41 MacBook, 4 digital cameras, and 2 video cameras available for loan
• 5 3D printers available for student use, in partnership with the Faculty of Science

Annually

• over 480,000 circulations
• over 13,000 items borrowed via ILL for UAL users and almost35,000 items lent via ILL to external users
• open 168 hours per week fall/spring term
• 2.8 million visitors to our physical libraries
• over 2.5 million views of UAL home page
• over 120,000 research questions answered via our physical and virtual service points
• over 680 classes taught to more than 21,500 students, faculty, staff, and community members