Library expenditure 1999-00

(£ millions sterling)

	National libraries	Public libraries	Univ & HE libraries
Staff	65	465	214
Books	11	87	48
Periodicals	4	7	69
A/V	-	15	in books
Automated systems	-	29	17
On-line services	-	-	32
Overheads, premises etc	51	245	36
Total gross expenditure	132	848	417
Income	29	78	65
Total net expenditure	103	770	352

Library acquisitions 1999-00

	National libraries	Univ & HE libraries	Public libraries
Copyright deposit items	781,000	216,000	0
Books	408,795	2,831,000	10,786,000
Books per member*	-	1.16	0.31
Current periodicals	199,759	664,300	61,000
Periodicals per member*	-	0.27	0.00
Audio-visual	64,745	in books	1,453,000
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.