Did you know?
- Alden Library averages nearly 6,400 entrances a day when a quarter is in session. That multiplies to 1,700,000 entrances just last year.
- In the past five years, entrances have gone up 73 percent.
- The 2nd floor Learning Commons is open and staffed 24 hours a day.
- The library has a peak usage hour at 2 a.m.
- The Alden Library Web site has about 7.5 million global visitors annually and is recognized as one of the top research libraries in the country.
- The illustration on the ALICE online catalogue home page comes from the work of Sir John Tenniel who illustrated Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
- It inaugurated the now well-known OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) system by becoming the first library in the world to perform online computerized cataloging in 1971.
- Now, with OhioLINK, students and faculty have access to more than 20 million volumes and thousands of electronic journals from more than seventy-five campus libraries across the state.
(Top: A librarian shelves books in "the stacks" of Alden Library during the seventies. Bottom: Senior marketing major Sara Heal sits among her own stack of books.)Photo Credit - Top image: Courtesy of Robert E. & Jean R. Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections
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