Electronic Books:

        1)  Number of electronic books held       203,442

        2)  Expenditures for electronic books       $818,983        

        3)  Are the above expenditures reported in Canadian dollars       no

Use of Electronic Resources and Services:

        4)  Number of virtual reference transactions       18,274

        5)  Does the library offer federated searching across networked electronic resources?       yes

        6)  Number of sessions (logins) to databases or services       635,968

                     a)  Number of resources for which you are reporting       ua

        7)  Number of searches (queries) in databases or services       ua

        8)  Number of successful full-text article requests       1,385,016

                    a)  Number of resources for which you are reporting       762

        9)  Number of virtual visits

                    a)  Number of virtual visits to library's website       4,649,526

                    b)  Number of virtual visits to library's catalog       58,508

                    c)  Excludes virtual visits from inside the library?       varies

 Library Digitization Activities:

        10)  Number and Size of Library Digital Collections

                     a)  Number of Collections       141

                     b)  Size (in gigabytes)       150,637

                     c)  Items       202,296

        11)  Use of Library Digital Collections

                     a)  Number of times items accessed       3,866,473

                     b)  Number of queries conducted       6,843

        12)  Direct cost of digital collections construction and management

                     a)  Direct cost of personnel       $29,192

                     b)  Direct cost of equipment, software or contracted services       $7,504

        13)  Volumes Held Collectively       1,600

Footnotes

1. Increase due to increase investments in eBooks and eBook packages.
4. Increase due to increased virtual reference transactions this fiscal year.
6 - 9. These data are not standardized yet and tend to fluctuate from year to year.  This past year Google analytics was used to compile some of these data.
10.b.- 11.b. These data are not standardized yet and tend to fluctuate from year to year.  This past year Google analytics was used to compile some of these data.
12.a. Decrease apparent because some salary information is not available this fiscal year.