Weeding Collections

The Doheny Memorial Library stacks can hold a maximum of 575,000 volumes.

There were 505,887 as of May 2014, so we are rapidly reaching full capacity.

Furthermore, we have added the following number of new books:

• 2010/11   21,342
• 2011/12   24,847
• 2012/13   22,782

Adding another 20,000 volumes in 2014/15 without transferring any will bring the total to about 525,000, and it will be completely full within about 3 years if we continue the current pace of acquisitions.

Masoud Farajpour has kindly provided capacity statistics broken down by call number.

Level 9

• A-B             80-85%
• C-D            85-90%

Level 5

• E-F            85-90%

Level 4

• G                80-85%
• H-HF         90-95%
• HG-HT      95%
• HV-HX       75-80%
• J-K             90-95%

Level 2

• L                80-85%
• N               90%
• P               85-90%
• PA-PL      75-80%
• PN            80-85%
• PQ            85%
• PR-PS      85-90%
• PT             90-95%
• Q               85-90%
• R               60-65%
• S-ZA         85-90%