General Works

Volume, Title, and Unique Books data collected on May 31, 2007.
Circulation statistics for the ALC fiscal year ending May 31, 2007.

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
1400-1699
1700-1799
1800-1899	76	4	4	29		113
1900-1909	102	1	34	1	57	195
1910-1919	3	3	30	32	34	102
1920-1929	13	1	11	11	7	43
1930-1939	19	5	30	7	51	112
1940-1949	50	2	13	7	7	79
1950-1959	112	23	82	79	70	367
1960-1969	135	14	97	58	59	363
1970-1974	43	10	53	23	50	179
1975-1979	70	26	25	8	41	177
1980-1984	102	20	19	12	27	183
1985-1989	81	50	41	14	53	239
1990-1994	118	69	50	4	159	400
1995-1999	260	163	108	8	147	686
2000-2004	399	218	35	34	13	699
2005	2	58	2		1	63
2006	3	65	53	30		151
2007		46	33			79
Totals	1,588	778	720	357	776	4,230
Average Age	1974	1994	1972	1960	1971	1976
Percent of Collection	0.56%	0.29%	0.46%	0.26%	1.01%	0.46%

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
1400-1699
1700-1799
1800-1899	10	3	3	2		18
1900-1909	6	1	12	1	8	28
1910-1919	3	1	19	4	6	30
1920-1929	6	1	10	6	4	26
1930-1939	15	1	27	5	2	49
1940-1949	46	1	13	6	4	61
1950-1959	85	5	24	20	62	183
1960-1969	86	14	87	52	45	243
1970-1974	41	9	18	22	32	118
1975-1979	68	24	21	7	33	150
1980-1984	79	19	19	11	25	139
1985-1989	52	44	27	14	32	156
1990-1994	56	64	12	4	37	161
1995-1999	65	83	5	8	32	185
2000-2004	56	75	6	2	13	143
2005	2	10	1		1	14
2006	3	16	3	1		21
2007		2	1			3
Totals	679	373	308	165	336	1,728
Average Age	1973	1990	1961	1966	1972	1974
Percent of Collection	0.30%	0.20%	0.22%	0.13%	0.49%	0.27%

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
1400-1699
1700-1799
1800-1899	5	2	2
1900-1909	5	1	5	1	5
1910-1919	2		3	1	4
1920-1929	3	1	9	4	1
1930-1939	13		18	4
1940-1949	37		7	1
1950-1959	64	2	9	12	39
1960-1969	39	7	52	24	22
1970-1974	27	7	12	17	21
1975-1979	52	17	13	3	25
1980-1984	49	12	11	3	17
1985-1989	27	27	22	9	16
1990-1994	31	54	7	3	20
1995-1999	29	56	1	8	23
2000-2004	21	56	2		9
2005	1	6			1
2006	2	9	1
2007
Totals	407	257	174	90	203
Average Age	1970	1991	1963	1968	1974

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	52	4	5	0	0	0	61
APL Items	25	555	12	8	0	0	600
HSU Items	1	0	89	0	0	0	90
McM Items	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
HPU Items	2	0	0	0	0	3	5
Totals	80	559	106	8	0	3	756

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
1400-1699
1700-1799
1800-1899
1900-1909			1			1
1910-1919
1920-1929			1			1
1930-1939
1940-1949	1					1
1950-1959		5	4		3	12
1960-1969	1	7				8
1970-1974	3	8				11
1975-1979	4	26				30
1980-1984	5	14				19
1985-1989	2	41				43
1990-1994	1	57	22		2	82
1995-1999	12	131	62			205
2000-2004	23	120				143
2005	4	101				105
2006	5	90				95
2007
Totals	61	600	90	0	5	756
Percent of Circulation	0.17%	0.09%	0.41%	0%	0.10%	0.11%

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
19	0	26	17	64

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