Facts and Figures

Annual Expenditures

$28 million budget (2023–2024 fiscal year):

• Collection expenditures: $9,141,568
• Staff salaries (including benefits): $10,501,528
• Librarian salaries (including benefits): $5,623,627
• Students employee wages (including benefits): $517,104
• Operations: $2,187,928

Electronic and Print Collections

• 2.3 million physical volumes
• 2.6 million electronic volumes
• 310,000 journals and serials
• 280,000 audio/visual materials, multimedia, maps, photographs, and other graphic materials
• 100,000 government documents

Instructional Services

• 23,920 students served
• 702 presentations and workshop
• 4,714 library questions answered via chat and email
• 4,537 research consultations
• 2.4 million virtual website visits
• 18,300 ANTswers (library AI-enabled chatbot) questions answered since 2014
• $620,000 in estimated UC Irvine student savings/quarter from Affordable Textbook Program

Facilities

Buildings

• 1.1 million visitors
• 2,900 public seats
• 92,000 study room reservations
• 500 public computers
• 350,000 square feet in four locations:
  • Jack Langson Library
  • Science Library
  • Grunigen Medical Library (GML)
  • Gateway Study Center

Building Hours

• Up to 18 hours during a typical day
• Up to 97 hours during a typical week
• 24 hours a day, GML research lounge and during finals week