At the beginning of each Academic Year the Library disseminates some statistical data on users, services and patrimony.
The data taken into consideration refer to the period September 1st – August 31st of each year.
Users
Accesses to the Library during the A.Y. 2024-2025, divided by month. Note: in August the Library is closed to the public. The survey system considers univocal the entry of the single user even if repeated several times during the same day.
Annual trend of accesses to the Library from the A.Y. 2015-2016.
Users of the A.Y. 2024-2025 divided by origin (institutional users - external users).
Library cards issued to external users in the A.Y. 2022-2023, divided by period of validity.
Annual trend of Library cards issued from the A.Y. 2015-2016.
Services
Volumes handled in the A.Y. 2024-2025, divided between volumes requested and volumes actually delivered to users; the difference between the two values concerns the volumes for which a preliminary treatment was necessary (e.g. for bad state of preservation, for illegible label, for ambiguous location, etc.).
Annual trend of loans from the A.Y. 2015-2016.
Annual trend of incoming and outbound Document Delivery requests from the A.Y. 2015-2016.
Annual trend of attendees of standard User Education training and of number of meetings organized by the Library from the A.Y. 2015-2016.
Annual trend of attendees of targeted courses of User Education upon request and number of meetings organized by the Library from the A.Y. 2015-2016.
Annual trend of attendees of Library guided tours, distinguished between institutional and external users, and of guided tours organized from the A.Y. 2015-2016.
Annual trend of new monographic volumes exhibited and of weekly exhibitions held from the A.Y. 2015-2016.
Annual trend of volumes reserved by the Teaching Staff as a bibliography for their course and of bibliographies received from the A.Y. 2015-2016.
Patrimony
Annual trend of monographic volumes acquired by the Library from the A.Y. 2015-2016. In the A.Y. 2024-2025 were also acquired 2,153 periodical issues.
Annual trend of catalogued modern works from the A.Y. 2015-2016. In the A.Y. 2024-2025, 866 works of the Ancient and rare Fund were also catalogued, corresponding to 1,451 examples.
Annual trend of bound volumes from the A.Y. 2015-2016, divided between monographs and volumes of periodicals.
