Library by the Numbers
Access Services
Collections and Resources
Data: E-Resources
Data: LSC Numbers
Rice News Articles
Sam Byrd - Aug. 26, 2024
Fondren recognizes Anna Shparberg as 2024 Shapiro Award winner
Andrew Bell - Sep. 16, 2024
Andrew Bell - Oct. 1, 2024
Fondren Library increases access to Rice research
Andrew Bell - Nov. 15, 2024
Fondren Library celebrates Black History Month with ‘Archiving Black Intellectual Histories’ project
Andrew Bell - Jan. 29, 2025
‘A time to celebrate’: Students enjoy annual Lunar New Year festivities at Fondren
Andrew Bell - Jan. 31, 2025
Fondren Library event celebrates Owls with published works in 2024
Andrew Bell - Feb. 3, 2025
Rain garden takes root at Fondren Library through collaborative sustainability project
Andrew Bell - Jun. 13, 2025
Andrew Bell - Sep. 30, 2025
Social Media
At a Glance
Engagements: 51,366
Engagement Rate: 6.1%
Total Posts: 815
Post Link Clicks: +158.2%
Shares: 5,271
Audience: 4,790 (+15.9%)
Net Audience Growth: 677
DMs Received on Instagram: 809
Most Popular Post
Website Data
Total Sessions: 325,436 (+1.7%)
Engagement Rate: 81.39% (+47.48%)
Engaged Sessions: 264,886 (+50.04%)
Total Unique Devices/Users: 125,947
Page Views: 876,071 (+69.11%)
Form Submissions: 114,109
Electronic Resources
Fondren users accessed electronic resources (online journals, e-books, streaming videos, images, etc.) 1,419,625 times in FY25. Our electronic collections consisted of 1,994,091 e-books, 139,151 journals, 478,806 streaming videos or audio files, and 700 databases.
Library Service Center (LSC) by the Numbers (January - September 2025)
Total LSC Requests: 4044
Requests Delivered to the Circulation Desk: 1914
Requests Delivered to the Woodson Research Center (WRC): 2070
Requests Delivered to the Museum of Fine Arts (MFAH): 60
Total New LSC Items Processed: 67,442
- Note: A large portion of this figure comes from the Brown Fine Arts Library rehousing and renovation project.
Total LSC Inventory: 1,319,774
Library Instruction
348 Library presentations to groups
3,645 Total participants in group presentations