Founded: 1930; Seeley G. Mudd Building completed in 1975

Total operating budget 2006/07: 3.954 million (This includes DUMC Archives)

Staff: 38.25 FTE including 15 professional librarians (This includes DUMC Archives)

Staffing: The Library is open 86 hours per week

Collection: 300,305 volumes including the Trent Collection in the History of Medicine; approximately 134 current print only subscriptions and 4,973 electronic journal titles

Total items added to collection: 3,814

Total number of primary clients: 13,023

Lending of items (external circulation): 21,056

Gate count: 128,843

Net assignable square feet: 47,526

Information services: 9,767 questions were answered at the Library Service Desk and other service points

Interlibrary loan: 2,017 items were borrowed; 11,997 items were lent to others (filled requests)

In-house photocopying/campus document delivery: 2,051 items delivered to Medical Center clients

User education: 4,008 clients attended 545 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