History -- Americas

Volume, Title, and Unique Books data collected on May 31, 2004.
Circulation statistics for the ALC fiscal year ending May 31, 2004.

Volume Count and Average Age

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

	ACU	APL	HSU	McM	HPU	ALC
1600-1699			1			1
1700-1799	1					1
1800-1899	404	44	134	140	155	877
1900-1909	372	108	170	158	110	918
1910-1919	259	43	184	107	97	690
1920-1929	436	44	342	288	172	1,282
1930-1939	413	90	449	375	216	1,543
1940-1949	693	137	667	660	367	2,524
1950-1959	1,497	286	1,085	1,414	423	4,705
1960-1969	2,082	901	2,004	3,198	946	9,131
1970-1974	626	631	969	1,576	506	4,308
1975-1979	578	927	536	794	349	3,184
1980-1984	399	1,027	373	805	313	2,917
1985-1989	374	1,135	379	959	326	3,173
1990-1994	369	1,364	299	742	380	3,154
1995	58	298	42	129	83	610
1996	60	233	63	131	78	565
1997	59	175	40	132	99	505
1998	71	209	59	132	117	588
1999	79	229	61	90	60	519
2000	64	191	71	97	74	497
2001	89	175	46	40	50	400
2002	81	217	47	15	51	411
2003	93	177	33	19	39	361
2004	8	63		6		77
Totals	9,165	8,704	8,054	12,007	5,011	42,941
Average Age	1957	1981	1961	1967	1965	1966
Percent of Collection	3.67%	3.80%	5.48%	8.84%	7.03%	5.15%

Title Count and Average Age

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

	ACU	APL	HSU	McM	HPU	ALC
1600-1699			1			1
1700-1799	1					1
1800-1899	263	37	91	112	106	569
1900-1909	194	62	100	119	78	446
1910-1919	159	27	152	87	73	428
1920-1929	261	34	234	180	132	647
1930-1939	306	72	361	275	183	917
1940-1949	524	88	589	491	317	1,399
1950-1959	1,076	230	874	1,029	345	2,320
1960-1969	1,575	666	1,677	2,649	880	5,248
1970-1974	541	445	809	1,368	444	2,762
1975-1979	507	738	468	686	329	2,113
1980-1984	353	720	339	718	300	1,872
1985-1989	319	869	358	866	318	2,156
1990-1994	326	1,101	269	679	364	2,265
1995	55	220	42	114	73	424
1996	50	203	61	123	62	424
1997	50	149	38	120	92	389
1998	69	166	59	124	112	442
1999	68	185	61	89	57	381
2000	52	151	66	96	68	365
2001	62	137	46	40	48	279
2002	65	151	45	15	49	291
2003	60	137	22	9	30	239
2004	8	42		5		51
Totals	6,944	6,630	6,762	9,994	4,460	26,429
Average Age	1960	1981	1963	1968	1967	1969
Percent of Collection	3.46%	4.03%	5.22%	8.21%	6.93%	4.55%

Unique Books Count and Average Age

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

	ACU	APL	HSU	McM	HPU
1600-1699			1
1700-1799	1
1800-1899	198	31	63	73	70
1900-1909	114	49	46	58	34
1910-1919	85	19	95	45	44
1920-1929	133	20	125	72	53
1930-1939	161	52	183	114	85
1940-1949	224	50	248	156	111
1950-1959	392	118	291	285	70
1960-1969	635	339	524	1,014	303
1970-1974	248	255	341	718	182
1975-1979	234	460	240	316	141
1980-1984	163	481	132	340	120
1985-1989	148	604	151	416	121
1990-1994	149	770	143	343	156
1995	23	148	28	56	31
1996	23	148	38	59	28
1997	20	113	19	68	50
1998	40	112	39	60	64
1999	35	124	31	34	26
2000	33	100	41	47	32
2001	24	85	29	21	24
2002	34	97	30	7	35
2003	24	97	13	5	17
2004	2	24		3
Totals	3,143	4,296	2,851	4,310	1,797
Average Age	1958	1982	1962	1970	1967

Total Circulation

A count of charges and renewals for History -- Americas. This count only includes circulation of bound monographs, CDs, videos, and DVDs.

	Patron System
	ACU	APL	HSU	McM	CJC	HPU	Total
ACU Items	1,103	48	56	35	15	4	1,261
APL Items	346	2,338	119	136	92	0	3,031
HSU Items	84	54	578	23	6	9	754
McM Items	84	70	125	554	11	17	861
HPU Items	27	0	12	10	0	297	346
Totals	1,644	2,510	890	758	124	327	6,253

Circulation by Item Age

A count of charges and renewals for History -- Americas, 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	39		4		13	56
1900-1909	22		3	5	3	33
1910-1919	17		7	3	1	28
1920-1929	32		13	7	6	58
1930-1939	24	3	27	16	5	75
1940-1949	64	16	30	30	6	146
1950-1959	132	30	57	72	20	311
1960-1969	200	89	158	155	39	641
1970-1974	82	112	90	69	29	382
1975-1979	83	100	62	46	30	321
1980-1984	55	106	33	83	17	294
1985-1989	85	148	48	91	39	411
1990-1994	106	362	66	118	46	698
1995	29	83	8	32	6	158
1996	20	103	32	23	7	185
1997	17	77	7	27	26	154
1998	28	112	13	15	19	187
1999	20	93	22	22	11	168
2000	41	141	27	23	3	235
2001	55	224	17	15	7	318
2002	46	263	20	6	13	348
2003	51	813	10	3		877
2004	13	156				169
Totals	1,261	3,031	754	861	346	6,253
Percent of Circulation	2.97%	0.46%	3.24%	9.09%	6.01%	0.85%

Non-Circulating Use

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

ACU	APL	HSU	McM	HPU
414	0	217	269	46

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