I have been looking for Nancy's answer about the collection size. I thought an estimate was in the annual reports for the Illinois State Library, but I have not found it. I am going to ask Sandy for a report from SWAN that should update any info we have right now.
I have that we have 46037 items in the adult collection according to my spreadsheet, but I believe it is actually less because I never got a count for some CDs and videos were withdrawn. There have probably been some errors in the last several years since I had an actually SWAN report run.
Several years ago there were 40,000 plus items in the children's collection and perhaps 10,000 magazine issues. I think there are fewer magazines now, for we keep a year or two less in back issues.
So we probably have been 85,000 and 90,000. It will be good to find out.