Library Services Statistics
TABLE 1: USE OF THE LIBRARY
| Average Daily Visits |
2014‑2015 |
2013‑2014 |
| Term |
321 |
330 |
| Vacation |
273 |
288 |
| Overall |
301 |
313 |
| |
|
|
| HIGHEST DAILY VISITS |
597 |
700 |
| |
|
|
| TURNSTILE COUNT OF VISITS |
116,186 |
120,970 |
Averages include extended hours late weekday opening and Sunday opening.
TABLE 2: INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SERVICES
| Commercial Online Services (selected) |
2014‑2015 |
2013‑2014 |
| Databases |
|
|
| Westlaw UK |
468,895 |
714,199 |
| HeinOnline |
257,613 |
346,129 |
| Lexis Library |
300,198 |
259,149 |
| IBFD Online |
209,393 |
126,232 |
| Casetrack |
7,322 |
8,411 |
| Beck Online |
29,406 |
27,766 |
| Justis |
34,437 |
36,370 |
| Max Planck Encyclopedia PIL |
7,470 |
7,089 |
| LexisNexis Juris Classeur |
14,634 |
22,787 |
| Oxford Scholar - Law |
4,073 |
10,795 |
| WorldtradeLaw.net |
2,626 |
394 |
| Lexis AU Casebase |
2,010 |
2,456 |
| LLMC Digital |
384,596 |
17,724 |
| Other databases |
25,643 |
22,287 |
| |
|
|
| Electronic journals |
|
|
| EBSCO |
68,118 |
162,504 |
| Oxford Journals |
82,205 |
78,200 |
| Kluwer Law |
22,764 |
34,257 |
| JSTOR |
26,534 |
27,912 |
| Ingenta |
5,752 |
5193 |
| Wiley |
7,321 |
12,214 |
| Proquest |
17,891 |
30,550 |
| Cambridge Online |
5,142 |
10,743 |
| Sage Journals |
306 |
730 |
| Checkpoint |
984 |
1,543 |
| Other electronic journals |
30,467 |
12,281 |
| |
|
|
| Indexes |
|
|
| Index to Legal Periodicals |
accessed via EBSCO |
| Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals |
accessed via HeinOnline |
| Le Doctrinal |
485 |
1,188 |
| Other indexes |
4,350 |
2,281 |
| |
|
|
| Total usage |
2,128,908 |
2,127,638 |
| |
|
|
| IALS Web Site |
2014‑2015 |
2013‑2014 |
| Page Views |
4,947,600 |
4,796,936 |
| Number of Visitors |
762,932 |
735,091 |
| Visitors per day |
2,090 |
2,013 |
| |
|
|
| BAILII (hosted by IALS) |
2014‑2015 |
2013‑2014 |
| Page Views |
61,829,877 |
44,640,653 |
| Visitors |
8,112,798 |
7,545,539 |
| |
|
|
| IALS Online Databases |
2014‑2015 |
2013‑2014 |
| Amicus Curiae - online journal |
140,438 |
131,113 |
| Archives |
35,728 |
30,984 |
| CaLIM - Current Awareness |
1,817 |
1,822 |
| CLRT - Current Legal Research Topics |
10,658 |
13,041 |
| Eagle-i Internet Portal for Law |
64,297 |
66,923 |
| Electronic Law Library |
91,018 |
99,991 |
| FLAG - Foreign Law Guide |
40,840 |
38,730 |
| FLARE - Foreign Law Research |
61,703 |
67,941 |
| FLARE Index to Treaties |
17,934 |
20,962 |
| IALS Digital Collections |
100,642 |
139,229 |
| IALS Facebook "lifetime likes" |
3,478 |
2,500 |
| IALS library catalogue |
153,973 |
201,402 |
| IALS Open Journals |
190,936 |
278,327 |
| IALS Twitter Followers |
844 |
516 |
| LibGuides |
61,509 |
- |
| Library Research Guides |
- |
- |
| Library Subject Guides |
- |
- |
| SAS-Space e-repository (IALS section) |
132,488 |
83,355 |
| |
|
|
| Total usage |
1,171,344 |
1,269,163 |
TABLE 3: LOANS
| Collections |
2014‑2015 |
2013‑2014 |
| Main Collection |
16,089 |
22,597 |
| Short Loan Collection |
9,295 |
11,783 |
| Closed Stack Collection |
1,720 |
1,862 |
| Offsite Store Collection |
2 |
3 |
| |
|
|
| Total |
27,106 |
36,245 |
TABLE 4: INTER-LIBRARY LOANS
| Requests from Other Libraries |
2014‑2015 |
2013‑2014 |
| Volumes lent |
3 |
10 |
| |
|
|
| Photocopies supplied |
| No. of items |
65 |
78 |
| No. of sheets |
848 |
983 |
| |
|
|
| Requests made by IALS |
4 |
3 |
TABLE 5: TELEPHONE AND EMAIL ENQUIRIES
| Source of Enquiry |
2014‑2015 |
2013‑2014 |
| Academic |
914 |
887 |
| UK government departments |
13 |
10 |
| Overseas governments and international organisations |
13 |
8 |
| |
|
|
| Legal Profession: |
| Barristers |
43 |
55 |
| Solicitors |
112 |
120 |
| Overseas lawyers |
3 |
2 |
| |
|
|
| Other professions |
35 |
34 |
| Commercial institutions |
16 |
24 |
| Public libraries, charities and miscellaneous |
67 |
79 |
| |
|
|
| Total |
1,216 |
1,219 |
| |
|
|
TABLE 6: DISTANCE SERVICES
| Source of Enquiry |
2014‑2015 |
2013‑2014 |
| Telephone |
291 |
311 |
| Fax |
2 |
1 |
| Email |
1,294 |
1,338 |
| In person |
2 |
2 |
| |
|
|
| Total enquiries |
1,589 |
1,652 |
| |
|
|
| Document Supply Service: |
|
|
| Items emailed |
1,961 |
1,939 |
| Items posted |
0 |
0 |
| Items faxed |
0 |
2 |
| Items dispatched by courier |
0 |
0 |
| Items collected |
1 |
1 |
| |
|
|
| Total items supplied |
1,962 |
1,942 |
| |
|
|
| Sheets of copy supplied |
41,719 |
40,419 |
| Items loaned |
1 |
1 |
Page last updated: 31st March 2016
