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WYLD STATISTICS 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Participating Institutions 110 110 111 111 111 111
Item Records 3,700,720 3,759,322 3,732,990 3,744,246 3,776,834 3,805,213
Bibliographic Records 1,114,703 1,142,084 1,124,939 1,159,145 1,169,242 1,175,842
Patron Records1 333,026 330,008 338,024 332,436 353,663 376,714
Circulation2 4,674,290 5,097,886 5,436,316 5,421,960 5,335,006 5,214,876
WYLDCAT Searches 1,899,979 2,182,099 2,513,080 2,265,990 2,208,702 2,169,294
Licensed Databases, Sessions 906,510 1,356,004 1,771,971 1,992,949 2,011,235 2,052,276
Licensed Databases, Searches 2,140,978 3,148,806 3,957,100 4,637,253 4,808,417 4,788,105
Licensed Databases, Retrievals3 1,655,683 2,874,110 2,598,852 4,520,977 4,038,029 3,924,478
Audiobooks Downloads & Renewals 12,510 15,582 25,298 35,198 41,306 30,894
Learning Express - Tests Taken 2,378 3,732 4,447 2,547 2,063 3,539
Mango Languages - Total Courses (licensed May 2010) 4,519 7,223 8,964
eBook Downloads - 3M Cloud (from July 2012) 10,640
eBook Downloads - Freading (from February 2012) 12,720
1 users considered 'active' include patrons whose accounts were active in the current year or the past five years.
2 circulation includes checkouts, renewals (online and staff), and mark item used transactions.
3 'retrievals' includes: articles viewed; full text displayed.

Database Detail
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Databases sorted by sessions
Database sessions %of Total
Proquest Central 598,911 30.02.18%
EBSCO 521,709 26.15%
Gale Cengage 450,789 22.597%
Britannica 139,920 7.01%
Bookflix 80,524 4.04%
Wilson OmniFile (EBSCO) 57,046 2.86%
Chadwyck-Healy Databases 39,815 2.00%
Culturegrams 28,877 1.45%
Worldcat 25,797 1.29%
SIRS Researcher 15,864 0.80%
Heritage Quest 6,930 0.35%
Ancestry Library 6,594 0.33%
eLibrary (Curriculum Ed.) 6,302 0.32%
CQ Researcher 6,097 0.31%
Chiltons Auto Repair 5,166 0.26%
Cochrane Medical Library 2,919 0.15%
Proquest Obituaries 776 0.04%
HeinOnline 605 0.03%
Proquest Congressional 431 0.02%
Sanborn Maps 158 0.01%
TOTAL 1,995,230

Databases sorted by searches
Database searches %of Total
EBSCO 2,944,100 62.78%
Gale Cengage 977,771 20.85%
Ancestry Library 263,109 5.61%
Proquest Central 109,001 2.32%
Britannica 102,256 2.14%
Wilson OmniFile (EBSCO)     98,385 2.18%
SIRS Researcher 49,146 1.05%
Chadwyck-Healy Databases 47,264 1.01%
Worldcat 39,601 0.84%
Heritage Quest 29,830 0.64%
eLibrary (Curriculum Ed.) 8,498 0.18%
Chiltons Auto Repair 6,720 0.14%
CQ Researcher 6,646 0.14%
Cochrane Medical Library 5,069 0.11%
Proquest Obituaries 1,351 0.03%
Proquest Congressional 973 0.02%
TOTAL 4,689,720

 

Sorted by retrievals
Database retrievals %of Total
Gale Cengage 1,173,739 31.31%
EBSCO 794,018 21.18%
Proquest Central 444,923 11.87%
Culturegrams 310,801 8.29%
Bookflix 288,547 7.70%
Britannica 257,215 6.86%
Wilson OmniFile   176,290 4.70%
Ancestry Library 122,585 3.27%
Heritage Quest 83,023 2.22%
SIRS Researcher 29,399 0.78%
Chadwyck-Healy Databases 20,877 0.56%
Sanborn Maps 19,649 0.52%
eLibrary (Curriculum Ed.) 9,669 0.26%
CQ Researcher 9,381 0.25%
Cochrane Medical Library 3,732 0.10%
Proquest Congressional 1,993 0.05%
HeinOnline 1,191 0.03%
Proquest Obituaries 1,156 0.03%
TOTAL 3,924,478

 

Other
Session Searches
Serials Solutions 16,854 33,347

 

 

Notes on vendor specific data issues:
  • 'n/a' is an indication that this value is not available or not accurately reported.
  • NoveList is combined with EBSCO totals
  • Serials Solutions - multiple databases are searched at one time,
    counts for this service are included separately.

For questions contact Desiree Saunders at: desiree.saunders@wyo.gov