Literature, General Collections

Volume, Title, and Unique Books data collected on June 27, 2001.
Circulation statistics for the ALC fiscal year ending May 31, 2001.

Volume Count and Average Age

Counts and average ages of volumes (individual barcoded items) in Literature, General Collections. This count only includes bound monographic materials.

	ACU	APL	HSU	McM	HPU	ALC
1600-1699
1700-1799
1800-1899	109		20	2	14	145
1900-1909	81		104	50	45	280
1910-1919	43	3	24	31	19	120
1920-1929	110	6	70	33	25	244
1930-1939	71	5	43	17	24	160
1940-1949	130	13	87	53	51	334
1950-1959	269	34	97	81	35	516
1960-1969	587	111	164	128	52	1,042
1970-1974	194	71	44	44	24	377
1975-1979	191	79	29	32	14	345
1980-1984	196	85	21	26	9	337
1985-1989	161	86	17	35	9	308
1990-1994	181	119	19	14	17	350
1995	23	28	6	4	3	64
1996	41	36	3	5	2	87
1997	19	23	3	2		47
1998	15	26	1	3	2	47
1999	11	7	2	1	1	22
2000	9	11				20
2001	2	1				3
2002
Totals	2,443	744	754	561	346	4,848
Average Age	1962	1980	1947	1954	1946	1960
Percent of Collection	1.16%	0.42%	0.56%	0.43%	0.52%	0.67%

Title Count and Average Age

Counts and average ages of titles (excludes duplicate copies) in Literature, General Collections. This count only includes bound monographic materials.

	ACU	APL	HSU	McM	HPU	ALC
1600-1699
1700-1799
1800-1899	19		16	2	5	40
1900-1909	18		16	15	7	52
1910-1919	28	2	10	11	10	57
1920-1929	63	6	39	12	22	119
1930-1939	66	5	39	16	23	130
1940-1949	114	11	76	45	50	233
1950-1959	216	31	81	74	35	357
1960-1969	523	95	135	121	47	798
1970-1974	153	70	39	43	22	297
1975-1979	140	73	28	31	14	248
1980-1984	130	53	21	26	9	209
1985-1989	137	69	16	35	9	242
1990-1994	159	103	16	11	14	271
1995	17	22	5	4	2	43
1996	23	24	3	5	2	51
1997	13	18	3	2		36
1998	15	16	1	3	2	34
1999	11	6	2	1	1	20
2000	8	10				17
2001	2	1				3
2002
Totals	1,855	615	546	457	274	3,257
Average Age	1966	1979	1954	1961	1954	1965
Percent of Collection	1.02%	0.45%	0.46%	0.38%	0.45%	0.64%

Unique Books Count and Average Age

Counts and average ages of unique books (titles held by only one ALC library) in Literature, General Collections. This count only includes bound monographic materials.

	ACU	APL	HSU	McM	HPU
1600-1699
1700-1799
1800-1899	14		13	2	2
1900-1909	12		7	10	5
1910-1919	19	1	8	7	6
1920-1929	29	1	26	4	9
1930-1939	38	2	25	9	12
1940-1949	56	3	35	21	22
1950-1959	113	11	33	24	13
1960-1969	253	41	85	49	20
1970-1974	81	41	26	30	12
1975-1979	67	35	14	18	7
1980-1984	65	16	11	11	2
1985-1989	64	42	7	25	4
1990-1994	111	66	7	5	7
1995	10	10	3	3	1
1996	10	16	1	4	1
1997	7	12	3	2
1998	11	9	1	2	1
1999	10	5	1	1	1
2000	5	8
2001	1	1
2002
Totals	976	320	306	227	125
Average Age	1966	1982	1953	1962	1953

Total Circulation

A count of charges and renewals for Literature, General Collections. This count only includes circulation of bound monographs.

	Patron System
	ACU	APL	HSU	McM	CJC	HPU	Total
ACU Items	222	12	39	10	1	3	287
APL Items	24	404	32	14	0	0	474
HSU Items	2	1	20	4	0	0	27
McM Items	0	1	1	17	0	0	19
HPU Items	0	0	1	0	0	15	16
Totals	248	418	93	45	1	18	823

Circulation by Item Age

A count of charges and renewals for Literature, General Collections, broken down by item age and item owner. This count only includes circulation of bound monographs, and only items which have a valid date in their DATE_1 field.

	ACU	APL	HSU	McM	HPU	ALC
1600-1699
1700-1799
1800-1899	2					2
1900-1909	1		1	1		3
1910-1919	1	3		1		5
1920-1929	4	3	2		1	10
1930-1939	4	3		1		8
1940-1949	4	8		4	1	17
1950-1959	23	22	2	2	5	54
1960-1969	52	35	7	2	3	99
1970-1974	23	22	7	1	1	54
1975-1979	25	56			1	82
1980-1984	15	31	4	1		51
1985-1989	28	44	2	2	1	77
1990-1994	76	108		1	2	187
1995	6	32	1	2		41
1996	6	27		1	1	35
1997	9	26				35
1998	6	25				31
1999	2	14	1			17
2000		15				15
2001
2002
Totals	287	474	27	19	16	823
Percent of Circulation	0.60%	0.13%	0.11%	0.15%	0.22%	0.18%

Non-Circulating Use

A count of Non-Circulating usage for Literature, General Collections (as recorded by the circulation "NC" command). This count only includes bound monographs.

ACU	APL	HSU	McM	HPU
476	10	27	20	2

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