Facts and Figures

ANNUAL EXPENDITURES

$26.2 million budget (2022–2023 fiscal year):

• Collection expenditures: $9,090,001
• Staff salaries (including benefits): $9,593,786
• Librarian salaries (including benefits): $5,138,775
• Students employee wages (including benefits): $561,900
• Operations: $1,775,960

ELECTRONIC AND PRINT COLLECTIONS

• 4.5 million volumes
• 2.5 million ebooks
• 500,000 journals and serials
• 200,000 audio/visual materials, multimedia, maps, photographs, and other graphic materials
• 100,000 government documents

STUDENT AND CAMPUS SERVICES

• 21,500 students served via virtual and in person instructional services
• 4,700 research consultations
• 3,200 library questions answered via chat and email
• 2.4 million virtual website visits
• 16,500 ANTswers (library AI-enabled chatbot) questions answered since 2014
• $650,000 in estimated UCI student savings/quarter from Affordable Textbook Program

FACILITIES

Buildings

• 1 million visitors
• 2,900 public seats
• 91,000 study room reservations
• 340 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