Library by the Numbers

assignment Instruction

In Academic Year 2020-2021, Mines librarians held instruction sessions for 106 sections attended by 2556 students

We recorded 242,674 views of library how-to guides

leaderboard Research

As of 2020-21, the Mines Institutional Repository holds 12,910 items, including:

  • 3,499 Theses and Dissertations
  • 274 Student Research Publications
  • 8,932 Archival/Special Collections items

In 2020-21:

We conducted 23 Modern Researcher 501 Workshops with 235 participants

Research librarians completed 1,513 reference transactions

We recorded 242,674 visits to Library Research Guides

event Outreach & Engagement

In 2021-22, the library held 47 events with a total of 692 participants

lock_open Open Educational Resources (OER)

Awarded $140,000 in OER grants over two years to fund 37 faculty projects

Mines OER initiatives have saved approximately $621,000 to date in required and supplemental course material costs

local_library Collection

The Library collection currently holds:

905,351 E-books
144,288 E-journals
106,166 Print Books

In Calendar Year 2021, we recorded the following full-text retrievals from E-Resources:

  • E-Journals: 529,905
  • E-Books: 274,689

In 2020-21, the library loaned:

  • 2,391 Mines-owned items
  • 4,660 items via Interlibrary Loan (ILL)
  • 468 items via Prospector regional lending
  • 81 items from Gadgets to Go equipment check-out

group Building & Spaces

In 2020-2021, we recorded:

 

  • 53,217 visits
  • 31 study room bookings