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Facts & Figures

The "Can you tell a book by its cover?" edition

Some statistics about Dartmouth's two biomedical libraries

113
Number of hours a week one of the biomedical libraries is open

65,000
Number of volumes in the biomedical collection when Dartmouth's first biomedical library opened in 1963

300,000
Number of volumes in Dartmouth's biomedical collection today

900
Number of journal subscriptions in 1963

2,500
Number of journal subscriptions today

0
Number of audiovisual and software programs in 1963

6,000
Number of audiovisual and software programs today

1,500
Average number of hits per day on the biomedical libraries Web site
(http://www.dartmouth.edu/~biomed/)

530
Number of digital journals available on the biomedical libraries Web site

Source: Biomedical Libraries 1999-2000 Annual Report


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