Founded: 1930; Seeley G. Mudd Building completed in 1975
Total operating budget 2005/06: 3.695 million (This includes DUMC Archives)
Staff: 39.25 FTE including 15 professional librarians (This includes DUMC Archives)
Staffing: The Library is open 86 hours per week
Collection: 292,972 volumes including the Trent Collection in the History of Medicine; approximately 624 current print subscriptions and 3,556 electronic journal titles
Total items added to collection: 3,281
Total number of primary clients: 13,023
Lending of items (external circulation): 22,227
Gate count: 143,996
Net assignable square feet: 47,526
Information services: 10,357 questions were answered at the Library Service Desk and other service points
Interlibrary loan: 1,450 items were borrowed; 13,200 items were lent to others (filled requests)
In-house photocopying/campus document delivery: 1,286 items delivered to Medical Center clients
User education: 3,229 clients attended 392 orientations and instructional teaching sessions
Triangle Research Libraries Network (TRLN): A partnership of Duke, NC Central, NC State, and UNC-Chapel Hill for cooperative collection development, resource sharing, and technical innovation.
Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Statistics for all Duke Libraries 
