Ithaca College Library

Annual Report 2022-23

Teaching & Learning

Our librarians visit classrooms across campus to help students meet the challenges of college-level research and navigate the complexities of the information landscape.

We visited 101 classes
We visited 61% of Ithaca Seminars

Research Support

We‘re here to help. Every day, we answer questions ranging from how to find business statistics to how to cite a musical transcription. Questions come in through our chat service, email, and from those in the building.

We answered 10,056 reference questions
We held 274 scheduled research consultations
We spent 300 hours in consultations

Our Building

Ithaca College Library is one of the most vibrant spots on campus! We offer spaces for quiet study, reservable rooms for group work, and spaces for games, lunch, or meeting with friends.

We are open 112.5 hours/week
There were 1,463 study room reservations

Physical Collections

Our physical collections of books, journals, and audiovisual media supports teaching and learning across the curriculum. Come browse the stacks!

245,984 volumes
11,131 films
13,949 CDs

Interlibrary Loan

When a patron needs something that we don‘t have, the ILL staff will borrow it for them from one of our partner libraries. And of course we lend materials to those libraries in return.

Average turnaround time is 29 hours for e-delivery
We borrowed from 1,331 partner libraries

Reserves

Our reserves service lets instuctors create readling lists of physical or online items, reducing the burden of textbook costs for students.

882 citations in Canvas
$186,450 saved in textbook costs
176 physical items on reserve
742 circulations of physical items

Online Resources

We offer 24/7 access to a host of databases, ebooks, and streaming services, accessible from anywhere!

255,148 searches were conducted on the website

Most Used Journals

  1. The Chronicle of Higher Education
  2. Nature
  3. American Journal of Occupational Therapy

Website

The library website serves as a starting point for the information needs of the entire campus community. And its reach far exceeds Ithaca. People from all over the world use our research guides and Research 101 tutorials.

16,825 visits were made to Research 101
146,169 visits were made to our research guides
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