Facts and Figures

Annual Expenditures

$30.7 million budget (2023–2024 fiscal year):

• Collection expenditures: $8,816,677
• Staff salaries (including benefits): $11,267,659
• Librarian salaries (including benefits): $6,134,489
• Students employee wages (including benefits): $601,490
• Operations: $3,835,643

Employees

Total employee headcount: 277

• 40 librarians
• 99 staff
• 138 student workers
• 280,000 audio/visual materials, multimedia, maps, photographs, and other graphic materials
• 100,000 government documents

Electronic and Print Collections

• 2.0 million physical volumes
• 3.2 million electronic volumes
• 2.2 million microfiche/microfilm
• 410,000 journals and serials
• 290,000 audio/visual materials, multimedia, maps, photographs, and other graphic materials
• 100,000 government documents

Instructional Services and Reference Services

• 21,862 students served
• 616 presentations and workshop
• 2,762 library questions answered via chat and email
• 4,720 research consultations
• $520,000 in estimated UC Irvine student savings from Affordable Textbook Program

Site Traffic

• 2.5 million Libraries website visits
• 1.3 million Libraries building visitors
• 890,000 Libraries online catalog visits
• 92,000 study room reservations

Buildings

• 2,900 public seats
• 350 public computers
• 350,000 square feet in four locations:
  • Langson Library
  • Science Library
  • Grunigen Medical Library (GML)
  • Gateway Study Center
• Open up to 18 hours during a typical day
• Open up to 97 hours during a typical week
• Open 24 hours a day, GML research lounge and during finals week