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Volumes
Electronic books only
Journal subscriptions
Electronic journals only Microforms
Films & videos
Audio recordings
Graphic images
Manuscripts & archives (linear feet)
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2,281,016
444,319
61,298
58,663
3,283,228
22,467
33,112
45,763
5,722
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Two millionth volume (September 2009): Amazing Spider-Man, #583
One millionth volume (April 1993): What light guides this hand
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Collection Use |
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Items circulated
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Services |
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Reference questions |
30,873 |
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Library presentations to groups |
1,033 |
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Persons attending presentations |
28,166 |
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Most popular events:
Brown-Lyons Lecture,
"How Jewish Was Jesus? " and Black History Month Lecture with Melissa Harris Perry. |
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People |
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Visitors |
2,101,533 |
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The number of visitors to the VCU Libraries has increased 247% in the past ten years. |
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Professional staff |
52 |
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Faculty of the VCU Libraries have served as presidents of the American Library Association, the Medical Library Association, and the VCU Faculty Senate |
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Support staff |
88 |
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Student assistant FTE |
14 |
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The Curious and the Fun |
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- VCU Libraries oldest book is De sanitate tuenda. It was published in 1538, or three hundred years before the founding date of the University.
- The Comic Arts Collection, one of top five among academic research libraries, includes a rare Captain Marvel Number 1 from 1941. Gifts into this collection exceed six tons.
- The Book Art Collection includes comprehensive holdings of Davi Det Hompson and 1960s Fluxus materials.
- VCU Libraries holds the personal library of author James Branch Cabell .
- The Medical Artifacts Collections is one of the largest of its kind found in an academic health sciences library. Among its over 6,000 items is an aortic clamp developed and used by internationally renowned cardiovascular surgeon, Michael E. DeBakey.
- The Tompkins-McCaw Library has the eighth largest physical collection of 126 academic health sciences libraries in the United States. On the eastern seaboard, only Harvard and Yale have larger collections, distinguishing TML as having the largest collection in a public institution on the east coast.
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Numbers derived from the fiscal year ending June 30, 2011.
