Literature -- American

Volume, Title, and Unique Books data collected on May 31, 2017.
Circulation statistics for the ALC fiscal year ending May 31, 2017.

Volume Count and Average Age

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

	ACU	APL	HSU	McM	HPU	ALC
1400-1699
1700-1799
1800-1899	213	2	245	122	259	841
1900-1909	321	1	207	137	229	895
1910-1919	253	2	178	132	171	736
1920-1929	390	5	296	187	168	1,046
1930-1939	480	22	421	288	267	1,480
1940-1949	661	20	724	497	338	2,240
1950-1959	1,110	69	833	742	291	3,045
1960-1969	2,388	317	1,430	1,900	575	6,612
1970-1974	891	211	505	925	264	2,797
1975-1979	726	195	520	823	225	2,491
1980-1984	732	166	517	1,101	236	2,753
1985-1989	716	396	561	1,284	297	3,257
1990-1994	832	461	494	805	460	3,052
1995-1999	773	439	547	678	387	2,825
2000-2004	609	587	361	390	229	2,177
2005-2009	400	581	442	208	108	1,742
2010-2014	151	371	239	24	75	860
2015	36	39	68	1	8	152
2016	23	23	19		9	74
2017	2	5	2			9
Totals	11,745	3,982	8,671	10,244	4,599	39,257
Average Age	1968	1993	1968	1972	1963	1971
Percent of Collection	3.40%	1.24%	4.85%	7.29%	5.60%	3.67%

Title Count and Average Age

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

	ACU	APL	HSU	McM	HPU	ALC
1400-1699
1700-1799
1800-1899	181	1	148	75	144	516
1900-1909	219	1	159	100	205	620
1910-1919	201	2	146	97	149	519
1920-1929	333	5	282	151	166	789
1930-1939	419	20	371	242	263	1,016
1940-1949	563	18	671	412	326	1,455
1950-1959	904	65	764	639	283	1,878
1960-1969	1,963	294	1,306	1,723	539	3,950
1970-1974	799	175	490	866	246	2,012
1975-1979	630	174	503	789	213	1,684
1980-1984	648	144	501	1,061	221	1,857
1985-1989	616	337	545	1,248	295	2,173
1990-1994	724	404	483	774	445	2,191
1995-1999	730	375	533	664	381	2,132
2000-2004	545	478	348	378	223	1,657
2005-2009	377	472	419	202	108	1,331
2010-2014	140	233	231	23	74	640
2015	34	28	67	1	8	133
2016	22	19	19		9	67
2017	2	4	2			6
Totals	10,085	3,294	8,050	9,445	4,301	26,761
Average Age	1969	1991	1970	1974	1965	1972
Percent of Collection	3.72%	1.58%	5.01%	7.48%	5.75%	3.68%

Unique Books Count and Average Age

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

	ACU	APL	HSU	McM	HPU
1400-1699
1700-1799
1800-1899	143		111	45	112
1900-1909	160	1	105	72	155
1910-1919	137	1	91	56	100
1920-1929	226	4	183	82	98
1930-1939	252	10	201	95	137
1940-1949	278	7	351	132	136
1950-1959	419	33	334	199	75
1960-1969	833	128	476	642	144
1970-1974	465	87	253	516	103
1975-1979	287	62	213	410	84
1980-1984	301	59	153	570	68
1985-1989	283	120	190	683	86
1990-1994	357	212	270	428	166
1995-1999	416	217	317	368	169
2000-2004	338	290	215	186	101
2005-2009	255	269	235	95	47
2010-2014	97	128	169	17	40
2015	28	18	60		5
2016	19	16	17		4
2017		3
Totals	5,317	1,692	3,995	4,596	1,831
Average Age	1968	1993	1969	1975	1959

Total Circulation

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

	Patron System
	ACU	APL	HSU	McM	CJC	HPU	Total
ACU Items	676	108	31	15	0	2	832
APL Items	31	1,313	16	8	0	0	1,368
HSU Items	64	90	231	8	0	0	393
McM Items	67	103	18	52	0	0	240
HPU Items	6	1	13	0	0	41	61
Totals	844	1,615	309	83	0	43	2,894

Circulation by Item Age

A count of charges and renewals for Literature -- American, 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		2			6
1900-1909	3		3	1		7
1910-1919		5			1	6
1920-1929	2		5	4		11
1930-1939	15	3	5	3		26
1940-1949	27	4	19	9		59
1950-1959	29	27	20	20	6	102
1960-1969	84	131	54	34	4	307
1970-1974	42	111	13	15	4	185
1975-1979	52	110	17	18	1	198
1980-1984	36	79	14	22	6	157
1985-1989	60	204	23	33	9	329
1990-1994	86	137	16	33	7	279
1995-1999	93	64	70	22	6	255
2000-2004	100	78	30	11	2	221
2005-2009	70	181	41	14	4	310
2010-2014	47	134	31	1	10	223
2015	28	38	8		1	75
2016	15	40	2			57
2017		3				3
Totals	793	1,349	373	240	61	2,816
Percent of Circulation	3.67%	0.28%	3.07%	7.93%	2.63%	0.53%

Non-Circulating Use

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

ACU	APL	HSU	McM	HPU
244	60	54	136	26

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