Library facts and figures

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Learning and teaching

  • 10,605 individual assistances
    • 5,755 chat sessions - 2,886 face to face
    • 1,032 emails
    • 658 online video conferencing Zoom sessions
    • 274 phone calls
  • 1,653 students attended 70 researching and referencing sessions (face to face and online)
  • Over 20,000 students in over 100 individual units received faculty-specific sessions and online learning resources
  • 124,501 views of 183 online help guides for students

Quote: Oh wow. I feel like I have been walking through a dark forest and someone just gave me a torch.

Research support

  • 2,255,677 downloads of QUT research works via QUT ePrints, from 60 countries
  • 2,673 attendees at 230 research training sessions
  • 426 HDR students completed the IFN001: Advanced Information Research Skills unit
  • 23 Scholarly Communication Things Pressbook launched - a resource for researchers - 1,961 visitors

Quote: Our sincere thanks to you … for helping make the application as competitive as possible through your generous efforts on the data and impact front.

On campus

  • 1,997,541 campus library visits - that's an average of about 5473 visits each day
  • 110,586 visits during the 24/7 trial opening hours
  • 245,656 physical resources

Total information resources (physical and online)

  • 2,015,269 information resources

Quote: I have spent many long nights at the library and the opening hours are perfect for a uni student working a job during the day.

Digital campus/online

  • 1,347,927 eBooks
  • 339,204 online videos
  • 82,201 ejournals
  • 2,174,625 views of the Library website pages
  • 3,202,790 views of QUT cite|write
  • 142,347 views of Study Smart
  • More than 575,000 views of online unit readings
  • The 15 QUT Digital Collections were accessed 269,860 times from people in 205 countries

Quote: The substantial online access has been paramount to achieving success in my studies.