UofA Library Facts & Figures
Facts & Figures last updated February 2021
due to Covid-19 some figures are unavailable
due to Covid-19 some figures are unavailable
Collections
Print and electronic collections exceeding 5.6 million titles and over 8.2 million volumes including:
- more than 212,000 scholarly ejournals across disciplines from a wide range of publishers
- over over 2 million ebooks accessible via a variety of formats
- over 699 online databases
- over 60,000 items in ERA: Education & Research Archive, UAlberta’s institutional repository
- over 66 hosted open access journals
- more than 120,000 digitized books, 67,000 newspaper issues, and 20,000 images and maps related to the Canadian prairies and beyond
- 138,373 texts, 16,732 images, and 71 movies in our internet archives collections
UofA Press Facts
- over 1200 editions created
- 731 titles in print
- over 1000 authors
- more than 100 Open Access titles
- 15-25 titles published annually
- 7 full-time employees
Annual Statistics
- over 410,000 circulations
- over 10,000 items borrowed via ILL for UAL users and over 34,000 items lent via ILL to external users
- over 2.8 million visitors to our physical libraries
- over 2 million views of UAL home page
- over 140,000 research questions answered via our physical and virtual service points
- 749 classes taught to more than 20,000 students, faculty, staff, and community members
Spaces
Over 6,000 seats in 6 locations
- over 745 computer workstations, equipped with a wide range of software
- ~45 bookable study and practice presentation rooms varied in size and setup
- designated collaborative work and quiet/silent study areas, which have everything from large group work tables and comfortable soft seating to individual study carrels and quiet reading rooms.