Literature, General Collections

Volume, Title, and Unique Books data collected on May 31, 2009.
Circulation statistics for the ALC fiscal year ending May 31, 2009.

Volume Count and Average Age

Counts and average ages of volumes (individual barcoded items) in Literature, General Collections. This count only includes bound monographic materials.

	ACU	APL	HSU	McM	HPU	ALC
1400-1699
1700-1799
1800-1899	26		21	2	14	63
1900-1909	119		105	50	48	322
1910-1919	20	2	25	32	19	98
1920-1929	84	2	70	41	25	222
1930-1939	115	4	45	22	24	210
1940-1949	105	11	88	56	51	311
1950-1959	247	27	99	98	40	511
1960-1969	331	54	172	137	59	755
1970-1974	105	29	47	49	25	256
1975-1979	73	29	29	35	15	181
1980-1984	101	32	22	26	10	191
1985-1989	36	31	23	38	11	139
1990-1994	113	70	23	20	22	249
1995-1999	54	61	23	17	11	166
2000-2004	26	52	20	8	11	117
2005	5	6	4	3		18
2006	16	14	2	1		33
2007	5	11	1			17
2008	7	2	1	1		11
2009	1	2				3
Totals	1,589	439	820	636	385	3,873
Average Age	1958	1984	1950	1956	1949	1958
Percent of Collection	0.54%	0.15%	0.50%	0.45%	0.49%	0.40%

Title Count and Average Age

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

	ACU	APL	HSU	McM	HPU	ALC
1400-1699
1700-1799
1800-1899	21		17	2	5	43
1900-1909	22		17	15	9	59
1910-1919	17	1	11	12	10	48
1920-1929	46	2	39	17	22	104
1930-1939	57	4	41	21	23	126
1940-1949	95	9	77	47	50	218
1950-1959	190	24	83	88	38	340
1960-1969	288	45	143	130	52	549
1970-1974	76	29	42	47	23	196
1975-1979	49	28	28	34	15	130
1980-1984	70	24	22	26	10	128
1985-1989	30	29	22	37	11	113
1990-1994	104	60	20	17	19	195
1995-1999	38	49	22	17	10	122
2000-2004	24	40	20	8	11	97
2005	3	6	4	3		15
2006	11	12	2	1		25
2007	5	7	1			12
2008	6	2	1	1		10
2009	1	2				3
Totals	1,153	373	612	523	308	2,533
Average Age	1962	1983	1958	1962	1957	1964
Percent of Collection	0.49%	0.19%	0.42%	0.41%	0.43%	0.38%

Unique Books Count and Average Age

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

	ACU	APL	HSU	McM	HPU
1400-1699
1700-1799
1800-1899	16		14	2	2
1900-1909	13		8	10	6
1910-1919	11		9	9	7
1920-1929	20	1	26	6	10
1930-1939	34	1	27	9	12
1940-1949	48	1	40	22	22
1950-1959	108	7	37	35	12
1960-1969	187	22	91	54	22
1970-1974	49	22	27	35	13
1975-1979	30	13	15	21	7
1980-1984	47	9	11	11	3
1985-1989	16	22	11	27	5
1990-1994	78	37	9	7	11
1995-1999	22	34	16	13	6
2000-2004	13	28	15	5	7
2005	1	5	1	1
2006	7	8		1
2007	2	1	1
2008	5	1	1	1
2009	1	2
Totals	708	214	359	269	145
Average Age	1963	1987	1956	1964	1957

Total Circulation

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

	Patron System
	ACU	APL	HSU	McM	CJC	HPU	Total
ACU Items	92	9	10	7	0	0	118
APL Items	19	235	6	3	0	0	263
HSU Items	1	0	10	0	0	1	12
McM Items	0	3	5	7	0	0	15
HPU Items	1	0	0	1	0	4	6
Totals	113	247	31	18	0	5	414

Circulation by Item Age

A count of charges and renewals for Literature, General Collections, 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			2			2
1910-1919		1				1
1920-1929	1					1
1930-1939	1		1			2
1940-1949		4				4
1950-1959	19	3		4	1	27
1960-1969	16	19	5	1		41
1970-1974		9	1	1	2	13
1975-1979	3	14				17
1980-1984	11	11	1			23
1985-1989		14		2		16
1990-1994	28	43			1	72
1995-1999	11	45				56
2000-2004	13	64	1		2	80
2005	8	5	1			14
2006	3	14		7		24
2007	4	12				16
2008		5				5
2009
Totals	118	263	12	15	6	414
Percent of Circulation	0.35%	0.04%	0.06%	0.29%	0.12%	0.05%

Non-Circulating Use

A count of Non-Circulating usage for Literature, General Collections (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	32	17	1

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