Stats – Library, Academic Skills Centre & Career Resource Centre
In recent years, the Library has opened its doors and become home to the Academic Skills Centre (ASC) and the Career Resource Centre (CRC).
While the content focus of each of our three services is unique, the modes of access and delivery to students are quite similar, with professionals and staff offering individual appointments to students, fielding drop-in queries, visiting classrooms and facilitating access to essential resources.
With proximity, and an appreciation of our similar approaches, our services are looking for new ways to collaborate and support each other’s work. Understanding what we offer to students, and at what levels, represents the first step in that process, and we wanted to share this information with the teaching community.
The table below offers a statistical portrait of the support that each of our services provided to students during the Fall 2018 semester. We hope you’ll find it enlightening!
Supports for students
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FALL 2018 STATISTICS | ||
| LIBRARY | ACADEMIC SKILLS CENTRE | CAREER RESOURCE CENTRE | |
| Student appointments | 64 30-60 min |
1,772 30-60 min |
83 59 hrs : avg. 45 min |
| “Drop-ins” – help provided on-demand | 2,022 reference and citation questions 1,256 5-20+ min ~ 4,500 + printers, software & supplies requests @ reference and circulation |
697 15+ min |
261 131 hrs : avg. 30 min |
| Workshops, labs and class visits | 120 class visits avg. 40 – 60 min 103 day program 17 continuing education |
142+ hrs 110+ remedial activities & writing labs 22 hrs English fluency 10 hrs English Exit prep |
11 class visits avg. 15 – 30 min 1 panel discussion |
| Peer tutoring | N/A | 1,786 hrs individual peer tutoring 523 hrs peer tutoring groups |
N/A |
| Registered users | 12,000+ patrons = all students, faculty & staff |
574 clients 594 tutees |
N/A |
| Total visitors | ~270,670 by turnstile count |
2,500+ | 376 |
Resources/facilities |
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| Student spaces | ~685 seats 138 quiet study seats 223 group study seats 284 chapel seating (5 closed study rooms & 1 computer lab) |
37 seats 3 tutorial rooms |
9 seats 1 resource room |
| Technology | 130+ student computers 20 laptops 4 public printers 47 digital audio recorders 19 digital calculators |
2 student computers 2 SMART boards (for staff/tutor use only) |
4 student computers 1 public printer |
| Information resources | 60,000+ print titles 1,300+ required course texts 300,000+ e-books 14,900+ peer-reviewed e-journals 1,900+ films (DVD/VHS) 70,000+ streaming films |
+/- 350 titles specialized guides, dictionaries, thesauri +/-70 handoutscomplete Exit Exam archive |
+/- 460 titles selected brochures & handouts on |
Staff |
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| 3 reference librarians 1 technical services (TS) librarian 2 library technicians* 1 administrative technician 4 clerks (2 circulation & 2 TS) |
6 pedagogical counsellors 1 administrative assistant + 175 trained peer tutors |
1 career counsellor 1 library technician |
*One of the two library technicians supports both the Library and the Career Resource Centre.
