(Photography by Jamie Manley, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

Overdue notice

The voluminous University of Chicago Library, by the numbers.

Number of University of Chicago Library facilities:

6

Print volume capacity, in millions:

11

Volumes circulated in 2012–13:

306,445

Linear feet of archives and manuscripts:

51,760

Miles of shelving:

205

Average retrieval time, in minutes, for a book by Mansueto’s robotic cranes:

3

Visits by researchers unaffiliated with the University in 2012–13:

31,813

Percentage of collections that are non-English and published outside the US:

45