Volumes held

Over 10.7 million

Volumes added 06-07

188,000

Current serials

87,000

Ranking among public research university libraries, according to Association of Research Libraries

# 1

Number of square feet

Over one million

Library hours during finals

24 hours a day

Number of PhDs awarded by UC Berkeley in 2007

Over 900 (more than any other American university)

Number of fields in which PhDs can be awarded

96

Number of languages taught at Cal

68, including Welsh, Swahili, and Uzbek

Subject specialty and affiliated libraries

25

Circulation transactions per year

1,700,000

Items checked out per year

720,000

UCB Library cardholders

78,000

Undergraduates at Cal (Fall 2007)

25,000

Graduate students (Fall 2007)

10,000

Faculty (Fall 2007)

1,790

Gifts to the Library FY 06-07

$16 million

Total reference transactions per year

134,000

Visits to library websites per year (all documents)

20 million

Instructional sessions per year

Over 1,000 sessions with 23,000 attendees

Operating budget (06-07)

$42 million

Staff employees

350

Student employees

600