PUBLIC LIBRARY STATISTICS
Staff, opening etc.
|
|
1996-97 |
1991-92 |
|
No. of authorities |
177 |
167 |
|
Professional librarians per 10,000 population |
1.11 |
1.30 |
|
Total staff per 10,00 population |
4.51 |
4.86 |
|
Service points open 45 hours or more |
733 |
832 |
|
Service points open 30-45 hours |
1,611 |
1,640 |
|
Service points open 10-30 hours |
1,676 |
1,594 |
|
Service points open <10 hours |
452 |
480 |
|
Mobile service points |
696 |
710 |
|
Population per service point |
11,378 |
10,967 |
|
Total service point hours per week |
145,300 |
150,775 |
|
|
1996-97 |
1991-92 |
|
Professional librarians |
407 |
500 |
|
Expenditure per pupil (£ sterling) |
5.39 |
5.15 |
|
Bookstock per pupil |
3.8 |
3.8 |
Public libraries also serve the housebound, prisons and hospitals.
Use
Total population 58,800,000
Registered borrowers 33,516,000
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|
Totals ('000) |
Per member |
Per head of population |
|
Bookstock |
130,634 |
3.90 |
2.22 |
|
Books acquired |
10,913 |
0.33 |
0.19 |
|
Annual book issues |
501,170 |
14.95 |
8.52 |
|
Audio-visual acquired |
1,321 |
0.04 |
0.02 |
|
Audio-visual issues p.a. |
37,058 |
1.11 |
0.64 |
|
Total items on loan |
32,354 |
0.97 |
0.55 |
|
Enquiries handled p.a. |
61,089 |
1.82 |
1.04 |
|
Visits p.a. |
369,338 |
11.02 |
6.28 |
|
Net revenue expenditure (£1000 sterling) |
726,025 |
21.66 |
12.35 |
|
Materials bought (£1000 sterling) |
114,963 |
3.43 |
1.96 |
|
|
1996-97 |
1991-92 | |
|
Average cost per book acquired (£ sterling) |
9.42 |
8.27 | |
|
Average books allowed out |
9 |
6 | |
|
Average permitted loan (weeks) |
3 |
3 | |
|
Average duration of loan (weeks) |
3.1 |
3.0 | |
Books borrowed
Based only on those authors registered with the Public Lending Right.
Category analysis
Lending
Over one million
Allan & Janet Ahlberg
Enid Blyton
Source: Public Lending Right Statistics
Archives
In the UK there are about 250 publicly funded repositories. National archives services are housed in the Public Record Offices for England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, whilst local authorities provide Record Office services on a district or county level. CIPFA figures show that in 1996-97 481,000 readers consulted one million documents in local authority record offices. Local authority archive services had 933 members of staff (including 326 archivists) with net revenue expenditure at about £27 million. There are also specialist archives in universities and businesses. These archives employ in total approximately 2,000 professional archivists, record managers and conservators, with about 2,000 support staff (FTE). They receive nearly a million reader visits a year and hold about a million metres of shelving. About half the material is fully listed. Copies of most lists, and computerised indexes to them, are held centrally by the National Register of Archives maintained by the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts.
1998 L.I.S.T. online
Special library statistics
1998 L.I.S.T. online
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