Fast Facts

As the largest university library system in the Washington D.C.-Baltimore area, the University of Maryland (UMD) Libraries serve more than 41,000 students and 14,000 faculty and staff of the flagship College Park campus. The Libraries’ work enables student success, supports teaching, research, and creativity, and enriches the intellectual and cultural life of the community.  A member of the Big Ten Academic Alliance and the Association of Research Libraries, the UMD Libraries was honored with the 2020 Excellence in Academic Libraries award in the university category from ACRL.

Total Collections

• Combined print and electronic volumes: 6,700,388
• E-journal titles: 402,306
• Print journal titles: 1,144,068
• Streaming media titles: 337761
• Scores: 77,694
• Films and videos: 135,282
• Audio files: 52,833
• Maps: 13,851
• Linear feet of archives and manuscripts: 72,552
• Terabytes of UMD-produced digital content: 270 TB
• Databases: 826

as of December 31, 2022

Collections growth and preservation

• E-book titles added: 1,568
• Print book titles added: 11,340
• Films and videos added: 359
• Acquisitions expenditures for electronic materials: 89%
• Conservation treatments: 730¹
• Mass digitization: 75,000 pages/images

in FY22, except where noted

Services to users

• Full-text articles accessed: 4,249,314
• Web visits from around the world: 1,033,234
• Library classes taught: 620
• Students taught: 13,292
• Reference transactions: 21,617
• Items lent to other libraries: 19,755
• Items borrowed from other libraries: 34,205
• Top Textbooks: 1,085 circulations
• Equipment loans: 47,704

In 2022

Library Staff

• Faculty: 65
• Staff: 97
• Graduate Assistants: 17
• Student Workers: 233

as of March 29, 2023

Notes