Library Services

252,455Library Visitors
5,569Questions Answered
404Library Instruction Sessions & Workshops
1,775Research Consultations
7,344Attended Library Instruction Sessions
1,356Chats Answered

Library Collections & Circulation

Total Collections Inventory
Over 1.5 Million Items
Including 260 Databases

Collections Usage

10,110Physical Checkouts
90,095eBook & Electronic Media Usage
615,788Electronic Journal & Database Usage

Interlibrary Loan

Library Staff

14Faculty Librarians
9Library Staff
20Circulation Student Workers
5Archives Student Workers

More Information

Belk Library uses data to drive its decision-making to improve access, services, and collections for the Elon community. We report on collections and their circulation (digital and physical), expenditures, staffing, gate counts, reference, and instruction statistics every year. We report statistics by fiscal year (June 1 to May 31 the following year) to the Association for College & Research Libraries (ACRL) and to the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) American Libraries (AL) survey.