Library by the Numbers

LSC Statistics FY 22 

• Total LSC inventory: 1,181,593
  • Fondren items: 1,136,536
  • WRC boxes and books: 25,684
  • Fondren - Art Rare books: 10,439
  • Museum of Fine Arts Houston (MFAH) owned items: 8,934
• Items delivered to Fondren Library in 2022: 
  • Total retrievals (requests) delivered to circ: 2,182
  • Total retrievals (requests) delivered to Woodson Research Center (WRC): 2,101 (includes WRC boxes and Fondren Art rare books)
  • Total retrievals (requests) delivered to Museum of Fine Arts Houston (MFAH): 31

Eresource Usage FY 22

• Ebook Interfaces:
  • Springer Ebooks - 11,752
  • Ebook Central - 6,051
  • Walter de Gruyter Ebooks - 4,710
• Streaming Media:
  • Kanopy Moving Images - 14,197
  • Naxos Audio Tracks - 20,695

Reference/Libguide Usage FY 22

• Reference transactions:
  • Live chat sessions: 396
  • Reference asynchronous questions: 1524
• Libguides:
  • Total number of guides: 429
  • Total views of all guides: 36,564 
  • Most popular guides by views:
    • The Golden Girls: 3841
    • Archives of the Impossible: 2130
    • Newspapers: 1520
    • Cat Videos on the Web: 1157
    • Course Reserves: 1062
    • Graduate Students & Postdocs: 995
    • Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights: 969
    • Joan and Stanford South Texas Jewish Archives: 872
    • Government Information: 821
    • Paranormal Studies: 780

DMC by the numbers FY 22

• Number of posters printed: 577 
• Equipment checkouts: 1637 
• Studio usage 
• Audio studio checkouts: 174  
• Video studio checkouts: 75 

Instruction Statistics