GENERAL LIBRARY STATISTICS

Resources and operations 2001-02

	National libraries	Public libraries	University libraries	HE coll libraries
No. of inst/authorities	3	208	110	60
Number of libraries	6	4,614	745	130
Bookstock (millions)	59.9	116	100.7	8.3
Book Issues (millions p.a.)*	1.8	377	74.4	10.5
No. of workstations	-	22,993	33,614	5,190

	National libraries	Public libraries	University libraries	HE coll libraries
Professional librarians (FTE)	1,034	6,127	3,198	500
2000-01 Total staff (FTE)	2,936	25,797	10,200	1,120
1995-96 Professional librarians	951	6,552	3,035	490
1995-96 Total staff	2,894	26,513	9,985	1,140

Library expenditure 2001-02

(£ millions sterling)

	National libraries	Public libraries	Univ & HE libraries
Staff	70	511	229
Books	10	89	48
Periodicals	4	7	82
A/V	-	17	in books
Automated systems	-	39	in other
Overheads, premises etc	49	267	69
Total gross expenditure	133	930	447
Income	29	106	68
Total net expenditure	103	824	379

Library acquisitions 2001-02

	National libraries	Univ & HE libraries	Public libraries
Copyright deposit items	821,000	219,000	0
Books	311,932	3,138,000	11,019,000
Books per member*	-	1.83	0.32
Current periodicals	154,880	980,000	56,000
Periodicals per member*	-	0.57	0.00
Audio-visual	64,474	in books	1,485,000
A/V per member*	-	-	0.04

The Copyright Act (1911) requires publishers to deposit copies of books (including journals, magazines, maps etc.) with The British Library, the National Libraries of Scotland and Wales, and university libraries at Oxford, Cambridge and Dublin.

* 'Members' are all appropriate members of institutions and, for public libraries, those in possession of a current reader's ticket.