Stats At A Glance

Summary of the FIU Libraries' Statistics ^*

Collections
	Titles Held	3,146,829
	Total Volume Count	1,548,443
Public Services
	Reference Transactions	16,830
	Typical Weekly Public Service Hours	111.5
Library Instruction	Number of Participants	7,419
Library Instruction	Total Instruction Sessions	235
Access & Delivery Services
	Total Circulation (Excluding Reserves)	32,551
	Reserves Circulations	22,698
	Laptop Circulations	211,811
	Annual Gate Count	1,056,747
	Interlibrary Loan: Borrowing	6,167
	Interlibrary Loan: Lending	5,662

_{* Statistics ranging from 6/30/2019 to 5/21/2024}

Resource & Project Data

Tech Fee Projects

From 2013 to 2019, the FIU Libraries received a total of $11,864,934.94 in Technology Fee funding to implement 40 unique technology projects. These funds were invested in the following main areas:

Technology enhancement in the physical learning environment, including presentation and group study rooms, collaboration zones, a technology hub, library information displays, multimedia workstations, and research and teaching labs;
Purchasing of electronic devices including e-Readers, laptops, video cameras, iPads, GPS units, and digital media workstations for public usage;
Purchasing of electronic materials, including Alexander Street Press streaming video files and thousands of e-books from Springer, Elsevier, and others
Piloting new programs, such as “roaming reference”, a video contest for First Year Experience students, and online language learning software

Collection Summary

The University Libraries’ collections comprise over 1.7 million volumes, access to over 27,000 serials titles and an increasing variety of multimedia resources including DVDs, videotapes, audio books and digital collections representing a variety of subjects. Librarians work closely with faculty to select materials to support the teaching and research needs of the university.

The data in the table below shows growth over the last five years of various segments of the University Libraries' Collections.

Library Collection Statistics ^*
Category	Total
Print Book Titles	1,121,284
Electronic Book Titles	418,349
Physical AudioVisual Titles	361,407
Electronic AudioVisual Titles	104,279
Print Serial Titles	1,270
Electronic Journal Titles	127,793

^*Statistics as of 06/30/2019

User Statistics

Subject specialists (reference librarians) have developed a virtual reference service environment for our students and faculty. Using social media tools and service management systems, they have developed on-line research services providing individual real-time chat consultations and a 24/7 self-service research environment for 30+ different disciplines. Our devoted library faculty and staff have taught over 1,524 library research instruction sessions, reaching over 36,000 students (between August 2015 and July 2019), created and maintained 805 research guides (viewed 2,315,516 times) and responded to over 87,000 user queries.

The annual number of visits to library websites averages 2.9 million, with 1.3M+ unique users. Notably, mobile use of the website now averages over 200K visits per year. (See table below)

Analytics Data for library.fiu.edu
Year (Aug-July)	Visits (Unique Visitors)	Pageviews	Country	Systems/OS
2008-2009	1,736,388 (556,723)	3,493,959	US, India, China, Venezuela, Jamaica	Windows/PC, Mac, iPhone
2009-2010	1,536,221 (502,162)	3,204,210	US, India, China, Jamaica, Canada	Windows/PC, Mac, iPhone
2010-2011	1,664,852 (603,752)	3,429,789	US, India, Iran, China, Canada	Windows/PC, Mac, iPhone
2011-2012	1,554,939 (680,636)	3,411,091	US, China, Jamaica, India, Colombia	Windows/PC, Mac, iPhone
2014-2015	1,418,420 (504,810)	2,822,795	US, India, China, Italy, Mexico	Windows/PC, iOS, Android

Analytics Data for library.fiu.edu
Year (Aug-July)	Visits (Unique Visitors)	Pageviews	Country	Systems/OS
2015-2016	2,437,765 (1,617,482)	3,272,159	US, Mexico, Germany, Spain, Argentina	Windows/PC, Mac, iPhone
2016-2017	2,355,798 (1,574,883)	3,110,037	US, Spain, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia	Windows/PC, Mac, iPhone
2017-2018	2,435,588 (1,540,219)	2,952,676	US, Spain, Mexico, Argentina, India	Windows/PC, Mac, iPhone
2018-2019	2,105,257 (833,003)	2,309,854	US, Mexico, India, Canada, United Kingdom	Windows/PC, Mac, iPhone

Mobile + tablet Users
Year (Aug-July)	Visits	Systems/Devices
2008-2009	3,090	iPhone, iPod, Android
2009-2010	10,276	iPhone, Android, iPod
2010-2011	32,785	iPhone, Android, iPad
2011-2012	74,129	iPhone, Android, iPad
2014-2015	182,291	iPhone, iPad, Windows Tablet, Galaxy S5

Mobile + tablet Users
Year (Aug-July)	Visits	Systems/Devices
2015-2016	195,627	iPhone, iPad, Windows RT Tablet
2016-2017	238,110	iPhone, iPad, Samsung Galaxy S-Series Phone
2018-2019	251,400	iPhone, iPad, Samsung Galaxy S-Series Phone
2018-2019	164,956	iPhone, iPad, Samsung Galaxy S-Series Phone

Digital Library &
Institutional Repository

Original materials in the digital library are held by FIU as well as partner institutions in both South Florida and the Caribbean. The collections shared in the digital library focus on local and regional materials of historical, scientific, cultural, and educational importance, including documents, photographs, maps, videos, music, artwork, and rare books. Patrons from all over the world have accessed the digital collections content a total of 23,900,600 times (between July 2014 and June 2019).

FIU’s Institutional Repository is a full text, online, open access repository and publishing platform for the scholarship, creative output, and history of FIU. The scholarly content archived in the repository has been downloaded 2,316,821 times (between July 2014 and June 2019) by patrons from 51,968 institutions internationally.

Usage growth for the digital collections has averaged 21% annually, with a total growth of 115% in the past 5 years.

Year	Digital Library Item Views	Institutional Repository Downloads
2014 - 2015	3,439,666	374,433
2015 - 2016	3,832,426	430,144
2016 - 2017	4,830,031	456,424
2017 - 2018	5,225,528	499,056
2018 - 2019	6,572,949	556,764

Grants & Contracts

In the past 5 years (2014/15-2019/20), the FIU Libraries’ GIS Center, Digital Collection Center, Sound and Imagery department, in collaboration with other academic units and institutions, have secured a direct total of over $2.1 million in external funding.

Funding agencies included the USAID, the South Florida Water Management District, the National Park Service, the National Science Foundation (NSF), National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) the Miami-Dade Transportation Planning Organization (TPO), LYRASIS, Southeast Florida Library Information Network (SELFIN), Latin Grammy Cultural Foundation, City of Miami Beach, the City of Coral Gables, etc. Coral Gables’ Virtual History, the web GIS-based Sea Level Rise Impact Tool, and the Transportation Outreach Planner are examples of innovative applications of digital libraries and/or geo-spatial tools in disseminating community’s cultural heritage and intellectual properties, as well as in engaging community planning. The library-based GIS Center has also collaborated widely with FIU faculty on sponsored activities in the areas of Everglades restoration, vegetation monitoring, transportation and urban planning, geo-humanities, global disaster risk reduction and geo-enabled knowledge management.

Details about these projects can be found at http://gis.fiu.edu, and http://digitalcollections.fiu.edu/dcc/

	Project Description	Sponsor Name	Begin	End	Funding	Total
Community
	Coral Gables Virtual City II	City of Coral Gables	10/1/14	3/31/18	$102,000.00	$1,486,999.39
	Crunch Mapping/Web app	MBUS Main	6/1/18	>5/30/20	$500,000.00
	Immigration Narrative	City of Coral Gables	6/1/16	5/31/19	$50,000.00
	Miami Dade Bicycle Route Planner	MPO Dade_UF	11/15/15	6/30/16	$35,000.00
	MPO Miami Dade - TOP III	MPO Miami Dade Community	7/1/14	6/30/16	$119,999.86
	MPO Miami Dade - TOP III	MPO Miami Dade	7/1/14	6/30/16	$119,999.86
	MPO Miami Dade - TOP IV	MPO Miami Dade	7/1/16	6/30/18	$120,000.00
	MPO Miami Dade - TOP V	MPO Miami Dade	7/1/18	6/30/20	$120,000.00
	Opioid pilot study mapping and data analysis	FL Department of Health, Med School(main)	1/1/20	7/1/20	$10,200.00
	Pedestrian Safety Analysis Tool II	FDOT	17/28/14	6/30/15	$69,999.53
	Sea-Level Rise Impact Tool	City of Coral Gables	10/1/17	9/30/19	$135,300.00
	St Augustine Historical Project	UF/NEH	3/15/15	3/15/16	$57,500.00
	Tracking One Million Orchids and More	City of Coral Gables	3/1/16	3/1/19	$50,000.00
	Urban Tree Canopy Classification	Miami Dade American Forest UF (main Contractor)	7/1/20	06/31/2021	$117,000.00
Knowledge MNGM
	Digital Archives for Virginia Key	IMLS	1/1/17	12/31/19	$124,228.00	$489,227.02
	Ecohumanities for Cities in Crisis	NEH	1/1/15	12/31/16	$162,245.00
	Equity and Access to Archives	Society of American Archivists	1/1/18	12/31/19	$5,000.00
	Greater North Miami Historical Society Archives	SFLIN & City of North Miami	1/1/17	12/31/18	$9,500.00
	Hampton House History Harvest	SFLIN	1/1/18	12/31/18	$1,500.00
	Historical Aerial Digitization	USGS	12/15/14	3/31/15	$14,000.16
	Miami Beach Digital Archive	City of Miami Beach	1/1/16	12/31/16	$4,000.00
	Miami Dade MPO TOP VI	MPO Miami Dade	7/1/20	06/31/2022	$120,000.00
	Mile Markers	Monroe County Public Library	1/1/16	12/31/18	$10,000.00
	Preservation of Gujarati Materials - Zanzibar	British Library	1/1/15	12/31/16	$38,753.86
Natural Science
	ENP-Edge-Vegetation-Monitoring	DOI-NPS	6/15/17	9/30/22	$163,382.38	$1,842,157.89
	LiDAR Processing Algorithm for Wetlands	DOI-NPS	5/15/18	5/14/20	$198,708.80
	Monitoring of Tree Island Condition 2014-2019	ACOE	9/1/14	8/31/19	$491,952.79
	NESRS Phase II Vegetation Detection	DOI-NPS	10/1/14	8/30/17	$422,000.00
	NRCA Virgin Islands	DOI-NPS	10/3/16	9/30/19	$212,300.00
	R-EMAP IV - Phase II	EPA/ENP	5/1/18	12/31/18	$39,999.11
	Stormwater Treatment Area - SAV Detection	SFWMD	3/1/18	12/31/18	$29,500.00
	Vegetation Mapping Training Program	DOI-NPS	9/1/14	9/30/19	$243,824.97
Grand Total:						$3,818,384.30

Grants & Contracts

In the past 5 years, the FIU Libraries, in collaboration with other academic units and institutions, have secured a direct total of $1.6 million in external funding. Funding agencies included the USAID, the South Florida Water Management District, the National Park Service, the NSF, the Miami-Dade Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO), the Broward MPO, the Palm Beach MPO, and the City of Coral Gables. The Digital Library of the Caribbean (DLoC), the City of Coral Gables Talking Book, and the Coral Gables’ Virtual History are examples of innovative applications of digital libraries and geo-spatial tools in disseminating community assets and intellectual properties. The library-based GIS Center has collaborated widely with FIU faculty on sponsored activities in the areas of Everglades restoration, vegetation monitoring, transportation and urban planning, geo-humanities, global disaster risk reduction and geo-enabled knowledge management in the Global Water for Sustainability (GLOWS) programs. (See table below)

	Project Description	Sponsor Name	Begin	End	Funding	Total
Community
	Transportation Outreach Planner MDC	Miami-Dade County MPO	1/22/2008	6/29/2014	$277,880	$708,640
	Integrated Transportation Info BC	Broward MPO	1/1/2010	12/31/2011	$119,900
	Integrated Transportation Info PBC	Palm Beach MPO	5/7/2008	4/1/2012	$74,660
	Bicycle Knowledge Explorer BC	Broward MPO	3/26/2008	7/31/2014	$211,200
Knowledge MNGM
	Digitization of Historic Photos	City of Coral Gables	4/1/2009	9/30/2010	$24,000	$383,784
	Coral Gables Talking Book	City of Coral Gables	2/8/2010	12/31/2010	$35,000
	Coral Gables Virtual History	City of Coral Gables	10/1/2011	9/30/2014	$154,000
	GLOWS Knowledge Management	USAID	7/2/2012	6/30/2016	$67,630
	Disaster Risk Reduction Training Program and KM	USAID	7/2/2012	3/30/2013	$53,200
	REMAP Data Portal	EPA & NPS	9/4/2008	9/30/2009	$49,954
Natural Science
	Disaster Risk Reduction GIS+RS Data Development	USAID	7/1/2010	5/30/2013	$210,563	$438,619
	Everglades Vegetation Classification Mapping	SFWMD	1/23/2009	11/16/2009	$80,593
	Evaluation of Vegetation Classification and Scaling	SFWMD	3/23/2011	1/13/2012	$49,604
	Vegetation Monitoring in NESRS	National Park Service	7/1/2011	6/30/2016	$44,122
	Vegetation Trends in ENP	National Park Service	4/1/2012	3/30/2013	$53,737
Grand Total: $1,531,043

Floor	Resources Available	Floor	Resources Available
One	Center for Academic Success: University Learning / Testing Center Center of Excellence in Writing Electronic Classroom Broadcast Video Productions Resource Center for Education Technology UTS - Media Equipment Services Distance Learning Electronic Classroom Instructional Photography & Graphics	Two	Information & Research Services Rabbi Herbert Baumgard Learning Hub Curriculum & Juvenile Collection Graphic Novels LACiC - Latin American and Caribbean Center Government Documents GIS-RS Center & Teaching Lab Maps & Imagery User Statistics
Three	Periodicals & Newspapers (Abstracts & Indexes are located at the end of the collection) Honors College Student Resource Center College of Medicine Library Copiers Systems	Four	College of Medicine Special Collections & Archives Academic Space Management Study Area
Five	Audiovisual Collection Diaz Ayala Collection Architecture and Fine Arts (General Collection and Periodical Section N) Music (General Collection and Periodical Section M) Music Listening Room Music CAI Center Spanish Resource Center Group Study Rooms	Six	Quiet Study Space Group Study Rooms General Collection HJ-L & P-Z Oversized Books
Seven	General Collection A-HG Quiet Study Floor Group Study Rooms	Eight	Library Administration Collection Management Digital Collections Center

Floor	Resources Available
One	Circulation Reserves Intercampus / Interlibrary Loan Information and Research Services GIS Center Cataloging New Materials Shelf Reference Desk Copiers Starbuck's Coffee
Two	ASK! Center (student learning and support zone for writing, grammar, languages, study-skills, library and database research, and academic technology use.) Center of Excellence in Writing Microforms Periodicals Juvenile Collection Oversize Collection Video Collection Government Documents Graphic Novels Young Adult Serials Acquisitions Reference Collection Copiers
Three	General Collection A-Z Library Administration

Stats At A Glance

2023 Annual Report

Summary of the FIU Libraries' Statistics *

Resource & Project Data

Tech Fee Projects

Collection Summary

User Statistics

Digital Library & Institutional Repository

Grants & Contracts

Grand Total:

Grants & Contracts

Summary of the FIU Libraries' Statistics ^*

Digital Library &
Institutional Repository