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Facts and figures

Learn about our extensive collection, facilities and library equipment.

Collection 

  • About 600,000 books and non-books (DVDs, audiobooks, CDs)
  • 90,000 e-books, all of which are listed in the library catalogue 
  • About 1400 subscriptions to printed journals, with titles listed in the library catalogue 
  • Access to nearly 30,000 electronic journals with subscriptions (e-journals) 

Primary subject fields 

  • Economic Sciences and Law 
  • Additional collection areas: Political Science, Sociology, Psychology, Education, Philosophy, History, Information Technology, Mathematics, Linguistics and Literature

Media locations 

  • Open stacks on 3 floors using a finely differentiated classification system.
  • You can find your desired documents on the shelf and use them at the workspaces. 
  • Closed, external storage facility¸ in which books obtained prior to 1987 are stored. These items must be ordered from the library catalogue. Orders that are placed by 8 a.m. from Monday to Friday are generally ready for pick-up at the library by 12 noon. Please note that no books are picked up from the storage facility on Saturday.

New purchases 

  • Around 17,000 new purchases each year 
  • Send us your purchase recommendations using this form

Usage 

  • 158,470 items borrowed in 2011
  • 11,155 active users in 2011
  • 80 Opening hours per week
  • Around 370 seats, expandable with an additional 80 seats during exam preparation periods 
  • 1400 square metres of space in the book / reading area on the ground floor; 1350 square metres on the upper level; 600 square metres on the lower level 
  • 470 square metres at the storage facility 
  • 42 employees (about 31 full-time positions)

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University of St.Gallen
Library
Dufourstrasse 50
CH-9000 St.Gallen

Phone: +41 (071) 224 22 70
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Fax: +41 (071) 224 22 94 
www.biblio.unisg.ch