Library Stats

• “Library website visits” are limited to the domain www.library.wisc.edu/ only, as reported by Google Analytics. (FY23)
• “Research guide views” include all public sessions recorded for LibGuides. (2024)
• “Digital circulations” are the summation of e-book, e-media, and e-serials usage. (FY24)
• “Study rooms reserved” include only student-initiated reservations in the online reservation system. (2024)
• “Items checked out” include data from Alma, but not other services or systems like ILL, e-books, or the equipment checkout system. (FY24)
• “Library instruction attendees” include all students, faculty and staff who attended in-person or virtually a synchronous instruction session run by library staff. (FY24)
• “Interlibrary loan borrows” includes all books and articles requested from external sources for UW-Madison researchers. (FY24)
• “Laptop loans” include all laptop circulations and renewals originating only from the equipment checkout system at library locations (Business, College, Ebling, Memorial, MERIT, Social Science, and Steenbock). (FY24)
• “Visits to library infolabs” is the total number of logins at InfoLab workstations in College, Ebling, Memorial, and Steenbock Libraries. This also includes logins on the College WisCEL workstations. (2024)
• “Questions answered” is based on sample data gathered throughout the year from all library service points.