The D. B. Weldon Library - Facts & Statistics

Faculties Served

Statistics

Online Catalogues

Building / Architectural Information

Faculties Served:

Arts and Humanities , Information & Media Studies, Social Science

Statistics

Service: (May 1, 2008 - April 30, 2009)

Collection: Monographs Serials Current Print Serials Microfiche Microfilm Microcard/microprint	4,281,453 1,280,056 135,609 4,008 2,062,921 78,378 724,489
Users (# of people entering building)	1,357,788
Circulation / Loans	234,949
Stacking / Reshelving	374,730
Reference Transactions	11,262
Instruction Sessions	319
Instruction Session Attendees	6,017

Online Catalogues :

Our quick search catalogue, powered by Innovative's newest product Encore ™, offers library patrons an alternative information discovery platform.  Encore elegantly presents all manner of discovery tools, such as faceted search results, a tag cloud, a Did You Mean...? feature, a Recently Added section, and RightResult ™ relevance ranking. Encore also provides a federated search feature in Research Pro which provides results from 5 major multidisciplinary online resources. Our traditional online Catalogue (WebOPAC) is also an Innovative Interfaces Inc. (III) product  first acquired by Western Libraries in 1996. It provides advanced search and other features not yet not available in Encore. Both Library catalogues allow our patrons to gain access to eight million print and microform items, and tens of thousands of electronic full text journals, bibliographic databases and hundreds of thousands of electronic books. They are "shared" with the affiliated colleges, Brescia, Huron, Kings and St. Peter's Seminary, and other campus information resource centres such as Information and Media Studies Graduate Resource Centre, the International Centre of Olympic Studies, and the Pride Library.

Building/Architectural Facts:

Ground Broken Dedicated Date Stone & Time Capsule Offical Opening	October 1968 October 29, 1971 November 30, 1972 June 1, 1972
Architects for Original Building:	Ronald E. Murphy of Murphy, Schuller, Green & Martin Architects, assisted by John Andrews of Toronto
Contractor:	Frid Construction Company Ltd.
Materials:	Pre-stressed, post-tensioned and standard reinforced concrete
Interior Space:	Total area 237,093 sq. ft.
Renovations:	Fall 1997 - Spring 1998, Summer 2006 - January 2007, Summer 2008 - Summer2011
Architects  1997/98 Renovations: 2006-2007 Single Service Desk:	A.J. Diamond, Donald Schmidt and Company. University Architect Mr. Joe Dolezel.
Official Re- Opening 1997/98 renovation: Offical Opening of Single Service Desk:	May 1, 1999 January 4, 2007
Addition of ARCC (Archives and Research Collections Centre)	Summer 2002 - Spring 2003
Architects for ARCC:	A.J. Diamond, Donald Schmidt and Company & Randy Wilson Architects
Contractor for ARCC:	Tonda Construction

Revised:  September 2009