HS/HSL: By the Numbers

Distinguished as the first library established by a medical school in the United States, the Health Sciences and Human Services Library (HS/HSL) provides collections and services for faculty, staff, and students of the University of Maryland, Baltimore as well as for the University of Maryland Medical Center (UMMC).

The Library also serves as the Regional Medical Library for the Southeastern/Atlantic Region in the National Library of Medicine’s National Network of Libraries of Medicine. The Southeastern/Atlantic Region serves 10 southeastern states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.

Founded 1813  
     
Use 9,959,513  page views for website
  24,741 reference questions answered
  4,308 class participants
  72,928 items circulated
  15,001 items loaned through interlibrary loan
  311,330 visitors to 601 W. Lombard Street
  102.5 hours open weekly
     
Holdings 25,498 eJournals
  163 print-only journal subscriptions
  97 databases
  368,745 print volumes
     
Special Collections   Woodward Historical & Special Collections
    Kinnard Leisure Reading Collection
     
Technology 50 public access computers
  1,500 data connections
  3 microcomputer classrooms
     
Space 190,000 gross square feet
  118,000 net assignable square feet
  900 seats
  45 group study rooms
  130 individual study carrels
     
Staff 30.10 FTE professional librarians
  38.50 FTE staff members

These figures are based on data reported for the 2006-2007 Annual Statistics of Medical School Libraries in the United States and Canada, 30th Edition, Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries Annual Statistics, 2008.

Last edited on Thursday, July 17, 2008