FACTS & FIGURES 2022
BUDGET
REFERENCE
3,732
RESEARCH CONSULTATIONS
(Including one-on-one consultations)
3,382
LIBRARY
QUESTIONS
ANSWERED
VIA CHAT & EMAIL
QUESTIONS
ANSWERED
VIA CHAT & EMAIL
ANTswers LIBRARY AI-ENABLED CHATBOT QUESTIONS ANSWERED SINCE 2014 MORE THAN 16,000
INSTRUCTIONAL SERVICES
602
TOTAL PRESENTATIONS & WORKSHOPS
TOTAL PRESENTATIONS & WORKSHOPS
SYNCHRONOUS 93%
561
ASYNCHRONOUS 7%
41
20,299
TOTAL STUDENTS SERVED
SYNCHRONOUS
VIRTUAL (30%)
VIRTUAL (30%)
5,984
SYNCHRONOUS
IN PERSON (33%)
IN PERSON (33%)
6,763
ASYNCHRONOUS (37%)
7,552
COLLECTIONS
SITE TRAFFIC
2,837,333
VIRTUAL LIBRARIES VISITS
VIRTUAL LIBRARIES VISITS
LIBRARY FACILITIES
JACK LANGSON LIBRARY
SCIENCE LIBRARY
GRUNIGEN MEDICAL LIBRARY
GRUNIGEN STUDY CENTER
350,000 SQ FT.
340
PUBLIC COMPUTERS
2,860
PUBLIC SEATS
UCI LIBRARIES FACTS AND FIGURES
Academic Year 2021–2022
Academic Year 2021–2022
ANNUAL EXPENDITURES
$26.8 million budget (2021–2022 fiscal year):
- Collection expenditures: $9,133,407
- Operations: $7,137,957
- Staff salaries (excluding benefits): $6,246,956
- Librarian salaries (excluding benefits): $3,921,826
- Student wages (excluding benefits): $374,504
- New grant funding: $827,000
ELECTRONIC AND PRINT COLLECTIONS
- Over 4 million volumes
- Over 2 million ebooks
- Nearly 300,000 journals and serials
- Nearly 200,000 audio/visual materials, multimedia, maps, photographs, and other graphic materials
- Nearly 100,000 government documents
STUDENT AND CAMPUS SERVICES
- Over 20,000 students served via virtual and in person instructional services
- Over 3,700 research consultations
- Over 3,300 library questions answered via chat and email
- Nearly 2.9 million virtual website visits
- Over 16,000 ANTswers (library AI-enabled chatbot) questions answered since 2014
- $860,000 in estimated student cost savings from Affordable Textbook Program
FACILITIES
UCI Libraries’ facilities include 350,000 square feet in four locations:
- Jack Langson Library
- Science Library
- Grunigen Medical Library (GML)
- Gateway Study Center
These buildings contain
- 2,860 public seats
- 340 public computers
These buildings are open
- 15 hours during a typical day
- 82 hours during a typical week
- 24 hours a day, GML research lounge and during finals week