Ithaca College Library

Annual Report 2024-25

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 120 classes
We visited 66% of Ithaca Seminars
We taught 2,791 students

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 1,047 reference questions
We held 314 scheduled research consultations
We spent 259 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.

There are 602 seats in the building
We are open 110.5 hours/week
There were 2,149 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!

242,789 volumes
11,197 films
13,948 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 36 hours for e-delivery
We borrowed from 185 partner libraries

Reserves

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

1,417 citations in Canvas
$65,250 saved in textbook costs
215 physical items on reserve
1,103 circulations of physical items

Online Resources

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

246,976 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.

331,535 visits were made to the IC Library website
14,301 visits were made to Research 101
100,451 visits were made to our research guides
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