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Statistics

Holdings Statistics:

The Penn State University Libraries rank 8th among North American research libraries, based on Association of Research Libraries (ARL) data as reported in the Chronicle of Higher Education, August 2007.
Number of volumes held
 5,069,854
Number of volumes added during year
 80,745
Total number of current serials received
 71,230
Number of maps
 350,000
Number of microforms
 5,202,694
Number of film and video materials
 163,643

Circulation/Transaction Statistics (one year):

Total circulation
 657,762
Number of reference transactions
 188,775
Interlibrary Loan requests filled for other libraries 57,763
Interlibrary Loan requests received from other libraries
 50,172

Personnel Statistics:

Total Staff
 576 FTE
Professional staff and faculty
 157 FTE
Support staff
 321 FTE
Student assistants
 98 FTE