Library in Brief

Users

• Library visits 259 252
• Active users / borrowers 12 045
• New customers 8 951
• Registrated users / borrowers 74 221

Loans

• Loans 90 208
• Renewals 156 098
• Inter-library loans (given and received) 1 250 

Electronic Services

• Collection database Volter
  • Viewed records 1 551 164
  • Number of retrievals 1 880 259
  • Number of contacts 1 642 932
• Usage of electronic resources 10 951 005

• E-books 963 073 titles
• E-periodicals 95 050 titles
• Printed books 1 119 249 titles
• Printed periodicals 33 345 titles
• Ephemera material 4 477 519 items
• Maps 18 603 items 
• Music materials 32 661 tiles
• Audiovisual materials 23 301 items
• Patent publications 136 807 items
• Archive materials 22 archive sources or creators

Cataloguing

• Number of records 1 522 778
• Added records 21 429
• Cataloguing to other database (2 databases) 269

• 557,5 hours
• attendees 7712

University of Turku research publications 6 550 (source: Data Warehouse)

• of which 6 181 reported to Ministry of Education and Culture (source: Data Warehouse)
• 174 dissertations

73% of the reported publications are open access:

• in open access publication channel 2 582 (42%)
• in hybrid publication channel 1 469 (24%)
• parallel publishing in non-open publication channel (Green OA) 444 (7 %) 

59% (3 618) of reported publications parallel published.

The agreements signed by the library enabled researchers to open 617 articles free of charge.

1 705 thesis in UTUthesis of which open access 1 031.

University of Turku dissertations downloaded from UTUPub 306 830 times.

Staff 31.12.2022

• Employees 73 
• Working years 71,25

Units

• In Turku 6
• In Rauma 1
• In Raisio 1
• Storage facilities 2 
• Administrative units 1 

Library opening hours

• 388,5 hours open during week
• 1 965 days open during statistical period

Library facilities

• 18 217 total floor area in square metres

Frame organisation (the data from 2021)

• Number of staff 3 620
• Number of students 16 918
• Admissions quota 2 465
• Total costs (x € 1000) 283 631,9 

Operating costs total 11 876 192 €

• Staff costs 3 554 928 €
• Library materials costs 4 612 253 € 
  • Printed material 314 233 € 
    • periodicals 54 254 €
    • monographs 259 979 €
  • Electronic material 4 293 184 €
  • Other material  4 836 €
• Space costs or calculated space costs 2 630 812 €
• Other costs 1 142 192 €

 Library financing total 11 940 185 €