Loan Services & Circulations for FY 2006-07

Between July 1, 2006 and June 30, 2007, the library circulated 8,401 items from our circulating collection. This is slight decrease from the circulation statistics of the previous year which reported 8,885 circulated

Overall 86% of the total annual circulations were items from our titles classed under the subject of art. The Top 3 circulation FY07 areas were in the following classifications:

• Sculpture, class range 730-739 820 (9.7%)
• Drawing, class range 740-749 1608 (19.1%)
• Painting, class range 750-759 3511 (41.7%)

During FY 07

• 69% of the total circulations were to BFA students,
• 14% to Continuing Education Students and
• 12% to Studio & Liberal Arts Faculty

· Our Interlibrary lending, college staff and post-baccalaureate and trustee community made much less of a demand on circulation. Together they made up the remaining 5%.

• On a related note, Interlibrary borrowing has continued with a healthy 89% fill rate. Interlibrary lending had a lower fill rate of 33.3%. Requests for materials from other libraries were very high this year. The students who were/are enrolled in the Art History minor were very much responsible for the increase in usage. The trend for materials requested was for in-depth academic materials regarding art subjects assigned in the art history classes. Items that were unfilled were generally hard-to-find titles that were not circulated by the lending libraries. In the case of article requests, some of the items were not to be loaned for free and the patron cancelled the request.