GENERAL LIBRARY STATISTICS

Resources and operations 2002-03

	National libraries	Public libraries	University libraries	HE coll libraries
No. of inst/authorities	3	208	110	60
Number of libraries	6	4,624	750	110
Bookstock (millions)	33.5	114	100.8	7.7
Book Issues (millions p.a.)*	1.8	361	76.8	10.2
No. of workstations	-	36,628	35,575	5,340
Professional librarians (FTE)	1,033	6,184	3,200	450
2002-03 Total staff (FTE)	2,860	26,359	10,200	1,170
1997-98 Professional librarians	988	6,388	3,060	430
1997-98 Total staff	2,903	25,938	9,820	1,030

Library expenditure 2002-03

(£ millions sterling)

	National libraries	Public libraries	Univ & HE libraries
Staff	71	536	240
Books	11	93	48
Periodicals	4	7	89
Audio visual	-	19	in books
Automated systems	-	52	in other
Overheads, premises etc	46	309	68
Total gross expenditure	133	1,016	466
Income	28	139	64
Total net expenditure	105	878	402

Library acquisitions 2002-03

	National libraries	Univ & HE libraries	Public libraries
Copyright deposit items	855,000	n/k	0
Books	341,855	2,863,000	11,956,000
Books per member*	-	1.60	0.35
Current periodicals	145,372	1,114,000	60,000
Periodicals per member*	-	0.62	0.00
Audio-visual	75,410	n/k	1,629,000
A/V per member*	-	-	0.05

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.