Philosophy

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 Philosophy. This count only includes bound monographic materials.

	ACU	APL	HSU	McM	HPU	ALC
1400-1699					1	1
1700-1799	4					4
1800-1899	92		24	28	8	152
1900-1909	66		51	47	31	195
1910-1919	57		32	13	26	128
1920-1929	92	1	88	40	16	237
1930-1939	95	2	90	77	23	287
1940-1949	142	11	97	125	83	458
1950-1959	434	5	304	447	159	1,349
1960-1969	556	40	652	943	227	2,419
1970-1974	124	16	164	412	89	805
1975-1979	115	20	147	178	69	529
1980-1984	88	9	163	321	58	639
1985-1989	86	15	115	398	25	639
1990-1994	114	34	174	177	51	550
1995-1999	186	46	165	168	59	624
2000-2004	104	48	231	115	31	529
2005	9	10	31	24	3	77
2006	24	19	33	27	9	112
2007		4	5			9
Totals	2,388	280	2,566	3,540	968	9,743
Average Age	1961	1987	1970	1970	1964	1968
Percent of Collection	0.85%	0.11%	1.63%	2.54%	1.26%	1.06%

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
1400-1699					1	1
1700-1799	3					3
1800-1899	70		20	22	7	114
1900-1909	52		24	23	21	103
1910-1919	44		20	12	22	89
1920-1929	81	1	70	31	14	165
1930-1939	90	2	75	61	23	188
1940-1949	115	3	89	97	67	277
1950-1959	385	5	251	387	140	832
1960-1969	489	30	567	821	204	1,610
1970-1974	119	16	149	379	85	659
1975-1979	104	19	120	168	63	409
1980-1984	80	9	142	307	54	501
1985-1989	84	11	112	390	25	541
1990-1994	82	33	169	175	50	436
1995-1999	167	44	162	166	57	527
2000-2004	103	41	222	112	28	459
2005	9	9	31	24	3	72
2006	14	10	24	18	1	59
2007		4	5			9
Totals	2,091	237	2,252	3,193	865	7,054
Average Age	1962	1987	1971	1972	1965	1970
Percent of Collection	0.92%	0.13%	1.62%	2.55%	1.25%	1.10%

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
1400-1699					1
1700-1799	2
1800-1899	59		11	15	5
1900-1909	38		8	12	10
1910-1919	34		10	8	16
1920-1929	50		40	15	9
1930-1939	56		35	23	8
1940-1949	60		50	42	26
1950-1959	210	1	87	169	38
1960-1969	242	9	273	484	87
1970-1974	71	9	97	308	60
1975-1979	69	8	72	128	49
1980-1984	45	4	78	223	25
1985-1989	45	3	72	323	7
1990-1994	49	20	133	126	20
1995-1999	115	33	121	130	34
2000-2004	81	26	178	86	15
2005	8	6	30	21	1
2006	9	7	18	15
2007		4	5
Totals	1,243	130	1,318	2,128	411
Average Age	1961	1992	1976	1975	1965

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	314	3	5	1	0	5	328
APL Items	18	125	2	6	0	0	151
HSU Items	31	9	120	8	0	7	175
McM Items	30	10	8	145	0	11	204
HPU Items	0	0	6	0	0	77	83
Totals	393	147	141	160	0	100	941

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
1400-1699
1700-1799
1800-1899	4			1		5
1900-1909	2		3		6	11
1910-1919	3		1		4	8
1920-1929	6	2	3		2	13
1930-1939	4	2	1	1		8
1940-1949	16	1	1	1	6	25
1950-1959	32	4	16	1	12	65
1960-1969	77	8	22	36	22	165
1970-1974	7	9	5	10		31
1975-1979	8	5	5	6	13	37
1980-1984	24	3	11	13		51
1985-1989	15	8	8	19	1	51
1990-1994	25	14	18	30	3	90
1995-1999	35	30	28	28	6	127
2000-2004	62	29	35	25	7	158
2005	2	19	12	23	1	57
2006	6	15	6	10		37
2007		2				2
Totals	328	151	175	204	83	941
Percent of Circulation	0.89%	0.02%	0.79%	2.79%	1.66%	0.13%

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
110	0	34	27	18

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