General Works

Volume, Title, and Unique Books data collected on May 31, 2003.
Circulation statistics for the ALC fiscal year ending May 31, 2003.

Volume Count and Average Age

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

	ACU	APL	HSU	McM	HPU	ALC
1600-1699
1700-1799
1800-1899	2	4	4	29		39
1900-1909	97	1	35	1	57	191
1910-1919	1	3	30	32	34	100
1920-1929	11	1	11	11	7	41
1930-1939	9	5	30	7	51	102
1940-1949	19	2	13	7	7	48
1950-1959	58	25	82	79	65	309
1960-1969	141	22	100	58	20	341
1970-1974	44	28	71	23	8	174
1975-1979	63	38	27	8	14	150
1980-1984	96	28	23	12	20	179
1985-1989	79	57	42	14	32	224
1990-1994	121	83	126	4	146	480
1995	24	76	24	3	2	129
1996	33	56			25	114
1997	97	65	30	3	32	227
1998	63	19	53	1	58	194
1999	62	25	1	30	17	135
2000	272	11	2	1	3	289
2001	103	52			2	157
2002	13	55	30	33	3	134
2003		46			1	47
Totals	1,408	702	734	356	604	3,804
Average Age	1981	1989	1970	1959	1969	1977
Percent of Collection	0.63%	0.33%	0.51%	0.26%	0.86%	0.48%

Title Count and Average Age

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

	ACU	APL	HSU	McM	HPU	ALC
1600-1699
1700-1799
1800-1899	2	3	3	2		10
1900-1909	1	1	13	1	8	24
1910-1919	1	1	19	4	6	29
1920-1929	5	1	10	6	4	25
1930-1939	5	1	27	5	2	39
1940-1949	17	1	13	6	4	32
1950-1959	37	6	24	20	57	130
1960-1969	81	22	90	52	18	219
1970-1974	40	10	23	22	6	97
1975-1979	61	35	23	7	14	129
1980-1984	74	27	23	11	19	135
1985-1989	50	50	28	14	18	147
1990-1994	56	75	15	4	29	164
1995	12	20	1	3	2	35
1996	8	16			5	28
1997	11	28	1	3	3	43
1998	18	16	2	1	6	42
1999	14	17	1	1	3	35
2000	25	10	2	1	3	38
2001	9	17			2	28
2002	7	10	1	1	3	19
2003		1			1	2
Totals	534	368	319	164	213	1,450
Average Age	1978	1987	1960	1966	1969	1974
Percent of Collection	0.29%	0.24%	0.25%	0.14%	0.33%	0.26%

Unique Books Count and Average Age

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

	ACU	APL	HSU	McM	HPU
1600-1699
1700-1799
1800-1899	2	2	2
1900-1909		1	6	1	5
1910-1919	1		3	1	4
1920-1929	2	1	9	4	1
1930-1939	4		19	4
1940-1949	9		7	1
1950-1959	19	3	10	12	34
1960-1969	35	12	53	22	8
1970-1974	26	7	12	17	4
1975-1979	46	25	14	2	9
1980-1984	45	17	10	3	14
1985-1989	25	33	23	9	10
1990-1994	30	58	6	3	16
1995	4	13		3	2
1996	5	13			3
1997	3	18		3	1
1998	5	12		1	2
1999	7	9	1		2
2000	5	8			2
2001		14			2
2002	3	6			2
2003					1
Totals	276	252	175	86	122
Average Age	1976	1987	1961	1967	1970

Total Circulation

A count of charges and renewals for General Works. This count only includes circulation of bound monographs, CDs, videos, and DVDs.

	Patron System
	ACU	APL	HSU	McM	CJC	HPU	Total
ACU Items	75	0	5	0	0	0	80
APL Items	15	457	6	16	8	0	502
HSU Items	2	1	12	0	0	0	15
McM Items	0	0	0	1	0	0	1
HPU Items	1	0	0	0	0	5	6
Totals	93	458	23	17	8	5	604

Circulation by Item Age

A count of charges and renewals for General Works, broken down by item age and item owner. This count only includes circulation of bound monographs, CDs, videos, and DVDs, 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
1900-1909			3			3
1910-1919			2			2
1920-1929
1930-1939					1	1
1940-1949
1950-1959		8	4		4	16
1960-1969		6	2	1		9
1970-1974	2	9				11
1975-1979	4	30	2			36
1980-1984	14	19	1			34
1985-1989	4	62	1			67
1990-1994	6	49				55
1995		20				20
1996		30				30
1997	2	38				40
1998	4	17			1	22
1999	3	48				51
2000		5				5
2001	40	103				143
2002	1	58				59
2003
Totals	80	502	15	1	6	604
Percent of Circulation	0.20%	0.09%	0.06%	0.01%	0.14%	0.10%

Non-Circulating Use

A count of Non-Circulating usage for General Works (as recorded by the circulation "Mark Item Used" command). This count only includes bound monographs, CDs, videos, and DVDs.

ACU	APL	HSU	McM	HPU
202	0	26	92	51

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