Employees
- Librarians (FTE): 20
- Support staff (FTE): 33.12
- Student assistants (FTE): 12.89
Use and services
- Library personnel handled 9,512 research queries in person, by phone and online.
- Librarians provided 525 instructional sessions and workshops reaching 9,889 participants.
- Annual gate count was 224,266 with 4,485 people coming into the Libraries in an average week.
- 18,911 physical items were checked out during the year (not counting renewals).
- WMU Libraries borrowed 4,432 items for WMU users from other libraries and lent 9,160 from our collections to other libraries.
- Libraries' website was visited 111,662 times.
- WMU users retrieved 502,493 articles and 1,032,986 e-books and media items.
- There were 2,014,618 downloads worldwide from WMU’s institutional repository (ScholarWorks).
- 890,959 pages were printed in the Libraries.
- Users logged in to public computers 64,212 times.
Collections
- Physical books (titles): 952,241
- Electronic books: 1,174,770
- Physical serials (titles): 16,685
- Electronic serials: 123,839
- Online databases: 713
- Physical media titles (audio/visual): 56,869
- Digital media titles: 316,109
- Items held in WMU’s institutional repository (ScholarWorks): 76,072
Unless otherwise stated, these statistics cover all branches of Western Michigan University Libraries.