History -- Americas

Volume, Title, and Unique Books data collected on May 31, 2005.
Circulation statistics for the ALC fiscal year ending May 31, 2005.

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	405	47	135	140	155	882
1900-1909	373	122	174	172	110	951
1910-1919	261	43	184	106	97	691
1920-1929	436	45	342	288	172	1,283
1930-1939	413	90	448	375	216	1,542
1940-1949	694	137	668	660	367	2,526
1950-1959	1,500	287	1,094	1,414	424	4,719
1960-1969	2,085	903	2,049	3,198	946	9,181
1970-1974	630	633	979	1,576	506	4,324
1975-1979	582	934	540	782	349	3,187
1980-1984	399	1,043	375	805	312	2,934
1985-1989	374	1,164	377	960	326	3,201
1990-1994	369	1,421	300	744	380	3,214
1995	60	305	42	132	83	622
1996	61	264	63	133	78	599
1997	62	186	41	133	99	521
1998	72	221	60	136	117	606
1999	82	240	62	90	60	534
2000	67	198	72	111	75	523
2001	90	194	57	75	50	466
2002	88	232	91	58	54	523
2003	115	195	99	57	80	546
2004	29	206	17	53	25	330
Totals	9,248	9,110	8,270	12,198	5,081	43,907
Average Age	1958	1982	1962	1967	1966	1967
Percent of Collection	3.60%	3.88%	5.55%	8.88%	6.88%	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	264	40	92	112	106	574
1900-1909	195	65	103	120	78	452
1910-1919	160	27	152	86	73	428
1920-1929	261	35	234	180	132	648
1930-1939	306	72	360	275	183	916
1940-1949	524	88	590	491	317	1,400
1950-1959	1,078	230	882	1,029	345	2,324
1960-1969	1,576	666	1,716	2,649	880	5,266
1970-1974	545	446	818	1,368	444	2,770
1975-1979	509	744	473	685	329	2,127
1980-1984	353	736	341	718	299	1,890
1985-1989	319	891	356	867	318	2,177
1990-1994	326	1,138	270	681	364	2,305
1995	57	226	42	117	73	435
1996	51	220	61	125	62	444
1997	53	159	39	121	92	402
1998	70	175	60	128	112	456
1999	71	196	62	89	57	394
2000	55	158	67	110	69	382
2001	63	154	57	75	48	327
2002	71	162	89	58	52	376
2003	82	153	87	47	69	394
2004	28	163	17	51	25	249
Totals	7,018	6,944	6,969	10,182	4,527	27,138
Average Age	1961	1982	1963	1969	1968	1969
Percent of Collection	3.41%	4.14%	5.29%	8.26%	6.82%	4.58%

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	199	34	64	73	70
1900-1909	115	51	48	58	34
1910-1919	85	19	95	44	43
1920-1929	133	21	125	72	53
1930-1939	161	52	182	114	85
1940-1949	224	50	249	156	111
1950-1959	393	117	293	285	70
1960-1969	635	338	540	1,009	303
1970-1974	249	256	346	717	181
1975-1979	235	464	245	318	142
1980-1984	163	496	135	340	120
1985-1989	148	621	150	418	121
1990-1994	151	799	145	344	155
1995	24	154	28	59	31
1996	24	163	37	59	28
1997	22	121	20	67	50
1998	40	119	40	62	64
1999	35	135	32	34	26
2000	34	104	40	52	31
2001	25	99	28	37	23
2002	38	99	53	28	29
2003	37	102	55	23	38
2004	8	114	9	27	12
Totals	3,179	4,528	2,960	4,396	1,820
Average Age	1958	1983	1963	1971	1968

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	982	58	46	35	20	9	1,150
APL Items	264	2,429	122	109	116	0	3,040
HSU Items	82	50	608	40	13	7	800
McM Items	169	108	93	452	21	28	871
HPU Items	42	0	11	23	0	205	281
Totals	1,539	2,645	880	659	170	249	6,142

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			2			2
1700-1799
1800-1899	20		3	6	1	30
1900-1909	17		4	9	3	33
1910-1919	14		7		1	22
1920-1929	24	2	11	9	2	48
1930-1939	21	3	18	16		58
1940-1949	37	6	16	3	7	69
1950-1959	74	25	64	63	18	244
1960-1969	187	81	189	136	31	624
1970-1974	80	87	82	85	14	348
1975-1979	61	74	57	58	16	266
1980-1984	62	91	54	76	26	309
1985-1989	75	128	49	88	27	367
1990-1994	98	316	71	86	28	599
1995	16	80	6	19	3	124
1996	22	92	28	33	6	181
1997	27	67	13	31	20	158
1998	25	80	12	38	13	168
1999	30	94	21	20	12	177
2000	51	111	39	40	17	258
2001	49	159	3	15	5	231
2002	32	214	22	22	8	298
2003	88	295	18	5	19	425
2004	40	1,035	11	13	4	1,103
Totals	1,150	3,040	800	871	281	6,142
Percent of Circulation	3.02%	0.45%	3.28%	9.43%	4.54%	0.81%

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
365	14	344	165	54

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