Philosophy

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 Philosophy. This count only includes bound monographic materials.

	ACU	APL	HSU	McM	HPU	ALC
1600-1699	1					1
1700-1799	5					5
1800-1899	180		24	28	8	240
1900-1909	134		51	47	31	263
1910-1919	161		32	13	26	232
1920-1929	577	47	88	40	16	768
1930-1939	575	3	89	77	23	767
1940-1949	586	19	96	125	83	909
1950-1959	1,208	32	291	447	159	2,137
1960-1969	2,175	155	620	943	221	4,114
1970-1974	1,022	135	153	412	60	1,782
1975-1979	847	166	138	178	46	1,375
1980-1984	802	98	151	321	50	1,422
1985-1989	719	161	107	398	28	1,413
1990-1994	581	408	161	176	61	1,387
1995	110	103	32	43	6	294
1996	110	134	44	32	10	330
1997	106	101	26	28	16	277
1998	159	131	22	28	12	352
1999	134	118	27	32	13	324
2000	86	102	35	35	8	266
2001	62	112	52	15	3	244
2002	48	146	35	6	4	239
2003	79	126	19	4	5	233
2004	6	23	1	1		31
Totals	10,473	2,320	2,294	3,429	889	19,405
Average Age	1965	1988	1967	1969	1963	1968
Percent of Collection	4.19%	1.01%	1.56%	2.52%	1.25%	2.33%

Title Count and Average Age

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

	ACU	APL	HSU	McM	HPU	ALC
1600-1699	1					1
1700-1799	4					4
1800-1899	124		20	22	7	167
1900-1909	93		24	23	21	141
1910-1919	132		20	12	22	175
1920-1929	238	3	70	31	14	321
1930-1939	291	3	74	61	23	384
1940-1949	485	9	88	97	67	648
1950-1959	1,033	24	239	387	140	1,469
1960-1969	1,949	117	537	821	191	3,084
1970-1974	888	91	138	379	56	1,446
1975-1979	782	108	111	168	40	1,131
1980-1984	724	75	134	307	46	1,181
1985-1989	619	112	104	390	28	1,157
1990-1994	494	352	158	174	60	1,126
1995	100	93	31	43	6	265
1996	101	110	42	32	10	270
1997	97	74	26	26	13	220
1998	132	91	22	28	12	265
1999	130	91	27	32	13	276
2000	76	78	34	33	8	222
2001	48	82	51	15	3	191
2002	45	101	35	6	4	188
2003	49	91	19	4	2	159
2004	5	21	1	1		28
Totals	8,640	1,726	2,005	3,092	786	14,519
Average Age	1967	1990	1969	1971	1964	1971
Percent of Collection	4.30%	1.05%	1.55%	2.54%	1.22%	2.50%

Unique Books Count and Average Age

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

	ACU	APL	HSU	McM	HPU
1600-1699	1
1700-1799	3
1800-1899	96		11	14	5
1900-1909	64		7	12	10
1910-1919	96		9	8	15
1920-1929	166		39	15	9
1930-1939	203	1	30	23	7
1940-1949	301	2	48	43	25
1950-1959	614	7	81	164	37
1960-1969	1,064	46	249	481	78
1970-1974	536	42	87	306	32
1975-1979	522	56	65	125	25
1980-1984	473	37	77	225	18
1985-1989	410	60	66	324	8
1990-1994	327	216	124	126	26
1995	77	72	27	40	3
1996	62	73	31	23	4
1997	71	47	19	19	4
1998	88	62	15	21	7
1999	92	61	21	26	9
2000	54	47	28	31	5
2001	33	53	43	13	3
2002	35	64	29	6	2
2003	30	59	17	3	1
2004	3	18	1	1
Totals	5,421	1,023	1,124	2,049	333
Average Age	1967	1992	1973	1974	1964

Total Circulation

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

	Patron System
	ACU	APL	HSU	McM	CJC	HPU	Total
ACU Items	803	31	49	30	1	4	918
APL Items	210	1,855	34	43	89	0	2,231
HSU Items	44	12	164	8	0	2	230
McM Items	115	18	47	81	1	3	265
HPU Items	7	0	3	0	0	65	75
Totals	1,179	1,916	297	162	91	74	3,719

Circulation by Item Age

A count of charges and renewals for Philosophy, 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	2			1	3	6
1900-1909	9			1	3	13
1910-1919	15				5	20
1920-1929	9	2	1		3	15
1930-1939	26		2	1		29
1940-1949	36	12	6	6	2	62
1950-1959	78	9	10	18	13	128
1960-1969	189	47	35	58	10	339
1970-1974	63	34	17	18	3	135
1975-1979	50	54	9	22	3	138
1980-1984	50	33	17	20	4	124
1985-1989	78	84	16	26	5	209
1990-1994	93	290	31	37	8	459
1995	21	92	16	1		130
1996	21	101	4	18	3	147
1997	9	87	8	6		110
1998	42	132	5	2	1	182
1999	37	134	11	15	1	198
2000	33	137	12	6	7	195
2001	20	132	16	7		175
2002	29	295	7	2		333
2003	8	546	7		1	562
2004		10				10
Totals	918	2,231	230	265	75	3,719
Percent of Circulation	2.16%	0.34%	0.99%	2.80%	1.30%	0.51%

Non-Circulating Use

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

ACU	APL	HSU	McM	HPU
491	0	44	72	24

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