Library Services

380,815Library Visitors
2,411Questions Answered
461Library Instruction Sessions & Workshops
406Research Consultations
7,489Attended Library Instruction Sessions
1,025Chats Answered

Library Collections & Circulation

Total Collections Inventory
Over 1.6 Million Items
Including 214 Databases

Collections Usage

10,577Physical Checkouts
129,322eBook & Electronic Media Usage
637,075Electronic Journal & Database Usage

Interlibrary Loan

Library Staff

16Faculty Librarians
7Library 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.