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2021 Library Services Dashboard: Collection Usage

E-Book Usage

*E-Book Usage measured by section requests

Physical Circulation

 

Month Circulation
January 3,282
February 2,535
March 2,779
April 2,397
May 1,819
June 2,508
July 2,245
August 4,406
September 9,120
October 8,289
November 7,206
December 5,682
Grand Total 52,268

*Does Not Include Athenaeum Circulation

 

Patron Requests/Circulation, 2021

Borrow Direct Activity, 2021

 

Borrow Direct Activity Totals by Partner, 2021

 

Penn as Borrower

Lending Library Items
Yale University Library 1,456
Columbia University Libraries 1,071
Princeton University 1,003
Harvard University 899
Dartmouth College 872
Duke University 823
Johns Hopkins University 811
Brown University Library 630
University of Chicago 587
Stanford University 503
Cornell University 374
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 154
Total 9,183

 

 

Penn as Lender

Borrowing Library Items
Yale University Library 2,748
Columbia University Libraries 1,480
Cornell University 1,205
Harvard University 1,168
Johns Hopkins University 1,165
Princeton University 869
University of Chicago 814
Brown University Library 555
Duke University 458
Dartmouth College 332
Massachusetts Institute of Technology 272
Stanford University 232
Total 11,298

Hathi Trust - Emergency Temporary Access Service* Use, 2021 (Service Ended August 2021)

 

Circulation By Library and Location, 2021

Library Circulation
Van Pelt Library 33,027
LIBRA 4,206
Fisher Fine Arts Library 3,740
Athenaeum Library 2,795
Ormandy Music and Media Center 2,192
Lippincott Library@Wharton 1,332
Museum Library 1,286
Holman Biotech Commons 678
Chemistry Library 676
Math/Physics/Astronomy Library 491
Veterinary Library - Penn Campus 283
Library at the Katz Center 275
Dental Medicine Library 101
Annenberg Library 55
Pennsylvania Hospital Library 51
Veterinary Library - New Bolton Center 10
Education Commons 7
ZUnavailable Library 2
Grand Total 51,207

Footnotes

*The Hathi Trust Emergency Temporary Access Service (ETAS) is a service provided to Member institutions in response to the move to remote learning necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Under ETAS, Member institutions and their patrons can access material regardless of copyright, as long as that institution holds a physical copy of the work in its collection.  

These usage statistics are distinct from the E-Book section requests, which are drawn from Penn's own electronic collections.

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