Library facts and figures

Image transcript - QUT Library Snapshot 2025

Learning and teaching

• Over 4,600 individual assistances to coursework students
• Over 970 students attended 66 researching and referencing sessions and library tours (face to face and online)
• Faculty-specific sessions (face to face and online) and online learning resources available for students from each faculty
• 181,661 views of 174 online help guides for students

Quotes:

I absolutely LOVE librarian chat… I use it every assignment.

…cite|write is extremely helpful when I have to reference my sources in assignments

Research support

• 3,558,713 downloads of QUT research works via QUT ePrints, from over 60 countries
• 994 attendees at 103 research training sessions
• 468 Higher Degree Research (HDR) students completed the IFN006: Advanced Information Research Skills unit 

Quote:

The whole presentation was well worth attending, and I loved the 'team delivery' approach, which kept the session alive and also provided some personalised 'deeper insights'

On campus

• 2,608,863 campus library visits (total) - that's an average of 7,148 visits each day
• 319,522 after hours visits
• 24/7 access for QUT staff and students to the Gardens Point and Kelvin Grove libraries
• 205,336 physical resources

Total information resources (physical and online)

• 2,221,884 information resources

Quote:

Librarians truly are the unsung heroes of the university

Digital campus/online

• 1,834,653 eBooks
• 88,824 online videos
• 93,071 ejournals
• 1,842,139 views of the Library website pages
• 3,244,045 logins to online library resources
• More than 497,961 views of online unit readings
• The 16 QUT Digital Collections (QUT history/donated material) were accessed 977,008 times from people in 171 countries