Circulations and Item / Borrower Counts

The following circulation figures, which reflect initial charges and all types of renewals, are for the twelve-month period from March 1, 1999 through February 29, 2000. The Item / Borrower Counts are as of February 29, 2000.

Counts by Type of Material

Category Circulations Item Count
audio media 7706 23577
books 269642 1210048
computer files 230 151
equipment 736 185
ILS 7236 485
internet resource 0 0
Juvenile 6343 19816
keys 145 457
maps 1710 13717
microforms 1251 46764
manuscripts 0 0
other (*) 0 7
periodicals 31729 408308
reference 116 38462
reserve 46801 22953
scores 4164 20556
serial 5242 185547
Superintendent of Documents (*) 41 10
vertical file 0 246
visual media 2872 9912
Total 385964 2001201

(*) The "other" and "Superintendent of Documents" categories count only those items (classified in LC and SuDoc, respectively) that could not be assigned to one of the format-related categories.

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Counts by Call Number Range

Category Circulations Item Count
Dewey
Dewey fiction 3583 10369
Dewey non-fiction 2956 9527
Total 6539 19896
Library of Congress
AC (Collections) 96 1372
AE (Encyclopedias) 26 3326
AG (Gen. reference) 58 597
AI (Indexes (General)) 0 2761
AM (Museums (General)) 84 514
AN (Newspapers) 832 40139
AP (Periodicals (Gen)) 1026 32644
AS (Academies/societies) 173 9483
AY (Almanacs...) 15 751
AZ (Hist.--Scholarship) 107 307
B (Philosophy (Gen)) 3939 20421
BC (Logic) 102 1197
BD (Philosophic views) 685 2941
BF (Psychology) 9422 24081
BH (Aesthetics) 159 772
BJ (Ethics) 842 3079
BL (Religion) 2262 6965
BM (Judaism) 533 2215
BP (Islam, Bahaism Theosophy) 1087 2463
BQ (Buddhism) 500 1795
BR (Christianity) 1433 9983
BS (Bible) 994 7246
BT (Doctrinal Theology) 734 3949
BV (Practical Theology) 567 4504
BX (Christian Denominations) 1554 14465
C (Aux. sci. hist.) 0 32
CB (Hist.--Civilization) 501 5405
CC (Archeology) 509 1363
CD (Diplomatics.) 87 2353
CE (Calendars...) 3 83
CJ (Numismatics) 42 472
CN (Inscriptions...) 2 205
CR (Heraldry) 112 451
CS (Genealogy) 143 1454
CT (Biography) 308 4294
D (History (General)) 2741 23146
DA (History - Great Britain) 2152 18320
DB (History - Austria) 98 2204
DC (History - France) 687 7389
DD (History - Germany) 908 7496
DE (History - Mediterranean) 56 723
DF (History - Greece) 843 3339
DG (History - Italy) 790 5565
DH (History - Neth-Low Country) 11 332
DJ (History - Nether.(Holland)) 14 286
DJK (History - East Europe) 16 275
DK (History - Russia) 630 9372
DL (History - Euro./Scandinavia) 96 881
DP (History - Spain / Portugal) 269 2302
DQ (History - Switzerland) 22 283
DR (History - Balkan Peninsula) 295 1761
DS (History - Asia) 3448 23221
DT (History - Africa) 1210 7300
DU (History - Oceania (S. Seas)) 139 1838
DX (History - Gypsies) 27 71
E (History - America (General)) 9590 51278
F (History - US local, other Americas) 5530 40650
G (Geograph.Atla.Map) 2985 37549
GA (Cartography) 102 826
GB (Physical geogra.) 626 2937
GC (Oceanography) 66 1439
GE (Environ. Sci) 314 531
GF (Human Ecology) 383 1159
GN (Anthropology) 2386 8224
GR (Folklore) 726 2875
GT (Manners/ Customs) 1016 1869
GV (Recreation...) 3830 11962
H (Social sciences) 1063 7710
HA (Statistics) 727 7836
HB (Econ. Theory) 1628 14710
HC (Economics /RC (region or country)) 2754 26657
HD (Economic production.) 6085 59424
HE (Trans./Comm) 1010 22672
HF (Commerce) 4526 32481
HG (Finance) 1119 19379
HJ (Public Finance) 357 7486
HM (Sociology) 3479 10633
HN (Social History) 1686 7740
HQ (Child, Family, Women Studies) 8098 17826
HS (Societies) 87 1198
HT (Races, Classes, Communities) 1485 7291
HV (Social Work) 8728 24154
HX (Socialism, Communism, Anarchism) 588 5124
J (Legis. Papers) 21 19977
JA (Pol. Sci. Coll) 503 4783
JC (Political theory.) 1265 5202
JF (The Constitution) 385 2159
JK (Const. Hist. USA) 1508 11333
JL (Const. Hist. Can., S. Am.) 101 968
JN (Const. Hist. Eur.) 233 4792
JQ (Const. Hist. Asia/Afr./Aus.) 197 1482
JS (Local government) 141 2571
JV (Colonies.) 167 1133
JX (International law) 546 13598
JZ (International Relations) 75 176
K (Law) 343 2397
KD (Law of the UK) 101 571
KDZ (Law. North America / OAS) 1 69
KE (Law of Canada) 2 65
KF (Law of the USA) 2245 14704
L (Education) 203 8105
LA (Hist.--Education) 603 5168
LB (Theory of educa.) 6579 30384
LC (Aspects of educa.) 3212 10153
LD (Individual school) 221 6424
LE (Educ: Indiv. (America)) 0 77
LF (Educ: Indiv. (Europe)) 20 526
LG (Educ: Indiv. (Asia,Afr.)) 1 78
LH (School magazines) 2 1035
LJ (Student societies) 6 196
LT (Textbooks) 5 21
M (Music) 13229 38985
ML (Lit. of music) 5986 18000
MT (Music instruction) 2233 5644
N (Visual arts (Gen)) 3732 17865
NA (Architecture) 8706 16556
NB (Sculpture) 516 2492
NC (Drawing) 1263 3039
ND (Painting) 2848 10068
NE (Print media) 319 1628
NK (Decorative arts.) 1331 6797
NX (Arts in general) 430 1736
P (Philolo./linguis.) 2330 10085
PA (Classic lang/lit) 2367 11837
PB (Mod. Europe lang.) 252 2655
PC (Romance Languages) 576 4723
PD (Germanic language) 82 1518
PE (English lang./lit.) 1383 6905
PF (W Germanic lang./lit.) 584 3258
PG (Slavic lang./lit.) 1044 12893
PH (Finn./Hung./Basq. lang./lit.) 8 259
PJ (Oriental lang/lit) 290 3448
PK (Indo-Iran. lang./lit.) 172 1057
PL (E. Asia/Afr. lang./lit.) 567 4604
PM (Artificial lang.) 108 579
PN (Literature) 9586 47154
PQ (Romance lit) 5976 51030
PR (English lit.) 13686 75342
PS (American lit.) 17455 67150
PT (Germanic lit.) 2131 33326
PZ (Juv. lit.) 44 355
Q (Science (General)) 2076 21960
QA (Math/Compu. Sci) 9470 42433
QB (Astronomy) 796 5291
QC (Physics) 4253 36984
QD (Chemistry) 4975 37044
QE (Geology) 1780 21315
QH (Natural/bio. hist) 4954 28756
QK (Botany) 2200 16701
QL (Zoology) 4249 19730
QM (Human anatomy) 262 1136
QP (Physiology) 3588 24517
QR (Microbiology) 1611 8603
R (Medicine) 2229 11950
RA (Public/medicine) 2350 14239
RB (Pathology) 488 2950
RC (Internal medicine) 9363 33498
RD (Surgery) 588 4058
RE (Ophthalmology) 96 733
RF (Otorhinolaryngology) 280 1227
RG (Gyn. / Obstet.) 699 2554
RJ (Pediatrics) 2133 5793
RK (Dentistry) 72 445
RL (Dermatology) 59 351
RM (Therapeutics) 880 5243
RS (Pharmacy/materia) 156 1268
RT (Nursing) 1072 6969
RX (Homeopathy) 4 16
RZ (Systems--medicine) 33 107
S (Agriculture) 1603 25438
SB (Plant culture) 3450 16852
SD (Forestry) 658 4494
SF (Animal culture) 6274 21583
SH (Aquaculture) 278 2816
SK (Hunting) 329 2400
T (Technology (Gen)) 884 8882
TA (Engineering) 3255 21409
TC (Hydraulic engin.) 245 3273
TD (Environment tech) 1432 7113
TE (Roads/Highways) 219 2081
TF (Railroads...) 100 1028
TG (Bridge engineering) 167 570
TH (Building construction) 681 4029
TJ (Engineer./machine) 704 8417
TK (Elec. Engin) 2442 19764
TL (Motored vehicles.) 823 8377
TN (Mines engineering) 377 9100
TP (Chem Tech) 2460 13516
TR (Photography) 1249 3362
TS (Manufactures) 1195 10029
TT (Handicrafts.) 556 4039
TX (Home economics) 1312 10631
U (Military science) 304 1825
UA (Armies) 208 2470
UB (Milit. admin.) 149 856
UC (Maintn./transport) 44 227
UD (Infantry) 11 49
UE (Cavalry) 4 17
UF (Artillery) 32 241
UG (Milit engineering) 155 804
UH (Other services) 21 238
V (Naval sci. (Gen.)) 76 603
VA (Navies) 56 339
VB (Naval administra.) 15 60
VC (Naval maintenance) 1 39
VD (Naval seamen) 0 1
VE (Marines) 10 48
VF (Naval ordnance) 1 18
VG (Services of Navies) 4 110
VK (Navigation...) 42 619
VM (Naval architectu.) 101 657
Z (Books in general) 2673 64050
ZA (Info. Resources) 7732 670
Total 335331 2011286
Local Call Number Types
Reserve 40258 20237
Theses and Dissertations 3356 53532
Total 43614 73769
Superintendent of Documents 341 3089
TOTAL: All Call Number Types 385825 2108040

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Counts by Item Type

Category Circulations Item Count
1 day 583 216
2 hour 5031 1563
3 day 960 948
7 day 379 32
Audio 8179 23699
Book 269914 1212168
Carrel 0 0
CDROM 175 156
Computer file 23 39
Equipment 733 181
Equipment, type 2 0 3
Film 0 160
ILS-Regular 5748 345
ILS-No renewal 1098 77
ILS - CRL Loan 149 14
ILS - Library use only 232 9
Internet Item 0 7
Juvenile 6304 19814
Key 142 423
Kit 0 0
Map 1766 12128
Microforms 540 24662
Microform periodical 887 57569
Microform serial 0 0
Manuscript 0 1
no circ 19088 9136
no circ audio 0 0
no circ book 113 8496
no circ cdrom 3 1
no circ computer file 0 1
no circ map 0 59
no circ periodical 48 14760
no circ score 24 1269
no circ serial 26 7842
Overnite 18805 15903
Paperback 243 247
Periodical 31256 365667
Score 4380 16054
Serial 5284 197793
Storage 0 17
SWN reserves 904 0
Visual 2954 9742
webpage -- reserve 0 0
Total 385971 2001201

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Counts by Borrower Statistical Class

Category Circulations Borrower Count
Affiliate 309 97
Austin Peay State University 0 0
Carrel/Faculty study 2711 810
Carson Newman 628 103
Chattanooga State Community College 16 0
Cleveland State 0 1
Columbia State Community College 0 0
Courtesy Card 939 327
Dyersburg State Community College 0 0
ETSU 332 45
East Tennessee State University Medical School 0 0
Faculty 46349 3690
Graduate 92296 8091
Interlibrary Services 0 0
Jackson State Community College 0 0
Kingsport Graduate 0 0
Knoxville College 11 33
Library Department 13126 123
Maryville College Subscriber 529 0
Miscellaneous 62 3
Motlow State Community College 0 0
Middle Tennessee State University 0 0
Nashville State Technical Institute 0 0
Northeast State Technical Community College 0 0
Oak Ridge National Lab. 779 375
Preston Area Physicians 0 0
Preston Attorney 0 0
Preston Corporate 0 0
Preston Courtesy 0 0
Pellissippi State 2331 1157
Preston ILS 0 0
Proxy 0 3
Preston Subscribers 0 0
Roane State 166 52
Shelby State Community College 0 0
Special Undergraduate 6145 287
Staff 18409 3546
State Technical Institute of Memphis 0 0
Subscriber 5454 1012
SWN Local Practitioner 0 0
Tennessee Tech 15 55
Tennessee State University 0 0
TVA 48 74
Undergraduate 114557 25437
University Health Systems 0 0
University of Memphis 0 0
University of Memphis Law College 0 0
Unidentified conversion problem 111 198
UT Chattanooga 584 227
UT Memphis Center for Health Sciences 63 11
UTGSM Faculty 0 0
UTGSM Resident 12 0
UTGSM Student 0 0
UTGSM Staff 0 0
UT Hospital 81 16
UT Martin 31 13
UT Space Institute, Tullahoma 2 4
Volunteer State Community College 0 0
Walters State 37 39
Total 306133 45829

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Counts by Borrower Type

Category Circulations Borrower Count
Carrel/Study 2577 640
Courtesy 4585 2352
Faculty 49712 8680
Graduate 114926 10812
Interlibrary Services 10054 77
Library department 3199 45
faculty - Memphis Grad School of Medicine 0 0
Preston Hold Shelf 0 0
Preston ILS 0 0
Preston Patron 0 0
staff - Memphis Grad School of Medicine 0 0
University Health Services 0 0
Ugrad with special privleges 5337 430
Staff 19984 14280
Subscriber 5816 969
Undergraduate 169640 37072
Undefined conversion problem 1 154
Total 385831 75511

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Posted March 14, 2000
Steve Thomas, Library Systems