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Harold B. Lee Library

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In-house Use Statistics

In-house Use Footnote 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2008
Increase
Return Shelf Footnote 244,129 220,162 215,027 192,628 170,833 163,922 174,647 6.5%
Periodicals Footnote 255,017 227,002 173,040 140,100 92,355 62,026 52,962 -14.6%
Ref Areas 102,531 102,554 117,674 126,999 114,662 103,034 69,659 -32.4%
Total In-house Use 601,677 549,718 505,741 459,727 377,850 328,982 297,268 -9.6%

Return Shelf
Call number ranges 		Footnote 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2008
Increase
1st Floor East
Psychology BF 3,325 3,473 3,231 2,250 2,198 1,907 1,729 -9.3%
Aux. Science of
History C-CT		 1,576 1,376 1,482 1,250 980 1,011 1,631 61.3%
General History D-DX 13,744 13,120 12,557 12,573 10,198 9,748 10,563 8.4%
U.S. History E 5,942 5,738 7,360 6,646 4,491 5,377 4,832 -10.1%
Local and Latin
American History F		 11,766 11,511 12,176 10,364 8,619 7,677 6,270 -18.3%
Anthropology GF-GN 930 955 818 884 997 811 769 -5.2%
Folklore/Sports/
Recreation GR-GV		 3,276 3,266 3,302 2,572 2,116 2,127 2,318 9.0%
Curriculum Collection 1,310 1,779 2,392 1,364 531 273 242 -11.4%
Quartos Footnote 439 448 348 326 236 69 0 -100.0%
1st Floor North
Social Sciences HM-HX 9,327 9,230 8,279 6,380 6,742 5,525 4,339 -21.5%
Political Science J-JZ 2,982 2,841 2,589 2,717 2,171 2,352 1,974 -16.1%
Law K-KZ 889 633 586 624 525 516 630 22.1%
Education L-LT 5,300 5,300 4,263 3,899 2,916 2,912 2,650 -9.0%
Military Science U-VM 889 725 754 606 673 681 593 -12.9%
General Works A-AZ Footnote 65 285 626 154
General Bibliography Z-ZA 108 360 999 197
Quartos & Folios 10 103 87 54 95 26 -72.6%
Sampler Footnote 1,004 5,591 456.9%
1st Floor South
Social Sciences H-HJ 7,528 7,246 6,449 5,939 4,568 4,107 3,886 -5.4%
Quartos & Folios 131 91 31 19 10 15 13 -13.3%
2nd Floor
Geography, Hydrology,
Oceanography, and
Environmental Science G-GE		 888 807 689 999 635 570 838 47.0%
Science Q-QR 17,049 14,329 13,599 13,107 10,373 9,499 10,464 10.2%
Medicine and Nursing R-RZ 10,534 9,519 8,137 8,365 6,022 4,782 4,332 -9.4%
Agriculture S-SK 3,083 2,293 2,077 2,125 1,728 1,104 1,007 -8.8%
Engineering/
Technology T-TP		 7,300 5,567 5,091 5,334 3,592 3,177 3,240 2.0%
Manufacturing/
Home Economics TS-TX		 2,453 2,072 2,162 1,971 1,768 1,443 1,575 9.1%
Quartos 408 271 296 303 212 256 33 -87.1%
2nd Floor East
Religion BL-BX 5,015 9,208 10,124 10,360 2.3%
Mormonism BX 8600 5,203 11,405 12,888 12,188 -5.4%
Quartos/Folio 79 146 156 33 -78.8%
3rd Floor
General Works A-AZ Footnote 1,195 779
General Bibliography Z-ZA 1,626 852
Quartos 49 34
4th Floor Footnote
Juvenile (Dewey 000-999) 29,460 24,981 30,187 27,603 25,318 26,224 24,484 -6.6%
Juvenile Quartos 337 519 356 564 931 375 354 -5.6%
Music & Dance Library (M-MT) Footnote 7,339
5th Floor South Footnote
Literature PN-PZ 31,676 27,840 25,897 22,316 18,662 17,056 18,091 6.1%
Quartos 372 202 189 219 8
General Bibliography Z-ZA 709 965 859 -11.0%
Welsh/Arabic/Icelandic Footnote 219 100 49 -51.0%
5th Floor North
Fine Arts N-NX 21,632 20,621 19,889 16,338 14,667 11,955 12,432 4.0%
Literature P-PN 10,479 10,097 9,179 7,369 10,756 10,698 11,060 3.4%
General Works A-AZ 265 690 467 -32.3%
Philosophy &
Religion B-BK		 Footnote 15,998 13,265 11,743 6,036 1,987 2,079 3,859 85.6%
Mormonism BX 8600 14,433 13,499 13,216 5,575
Photography TR 3,294 2,912 2,819 2,016 1,880 1,619 2,089 29.0%
Quartos B 142 130 105 97 16 2 2 0.0%
Quartos P 70 39 41 0 4 64 47 -26.6%
Quartos A & Z Footnote 34 56 23 -58.9%
Quartos N & TR 1,741 1,633 1,780 1,575 1,425 1,455 613 -57.9%
Folios A, P, B, Z 9 33 13 -60.6%
Folios N & TR 62 125 360 188.0%
Ancient Studies 371 113 143 190 371 220 380 72.7%
Welsh/Arabic/Icelandic 185 56 67 104 45
Total 244,129 220,345 215,027 192,628 170,833 163,922 174,647 6.5%

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