As a system, UC had almost 33 million volumes in 2007, including duplicates. As a point of comparison, the Library of Congress has more than 32 million cataloged books and other print materials.

The numbers shown above include locally purchased electronic books. Electronic books are full-length books that are available for reading online. Typically, the books can also be printed for reading offline, based on purchase and licensing agreements.

Source: ARL (Association of Research Libraries) Statistics. Additional information can be found at http://www.arl.org/. For Merced, San Francisco and Santa Cruz (the non-ARL campuses), data are from the UC Libraries’ Annual Statistics reports which can be found at http://www.slp.ucop.edu/stats/.

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