PUBLIC LIBRARY STATISTICS

Lending

Staff, opening etc.

	1997-98	1992-93
No. of authorities	190	167
Professional librarians per 10,000 population	1.08	1.26
Total staff per 10,000 population	4.40	4.80
Service points open for 45 hours or more	713	797
Service points open 30-45 hours	1,575	1,648
Service points open 10-30 hours	1,696	1,635
Service points open <10 hours	271	424
Mobile service points	673	700
Population per service point	12,671	12,130
Total service point hours per week	142,854	150,094

Public Library Support Services to Schools

	1997-98	1992-93
Professional librarians	362	476
Expenditure per pupil (£ sterling)	5.10	5.14
Bookstock per pupil	3.3	3.9

Public libraries also serve the housebound, prisons and hospitals.

Use

Total population 59,006,900

Registered borrowers 34,224,000

	Totals (000s)	Per member	Per head of population
Bookstock	127,989	3.74	2.17
Books acquired	10,466	0.31	0.18
Annual book issues	480,441	14.04	8.14
Audio-visual acquired	1,344	0.04	0.02
Audio-visual issues p.a.	37,391	1.09	0.63
Total items on loan	31,177	0.91	0.53
Enquiries handled p.a.	61,162	1.79	1.04
Visits p.a.	355,974	10.40	6.03
Net revenue expenditure (£1000 sterling)	723,909	21.15	12.27
Materials bought (£1000 sterling)	104,602	3.06	1.77
		1997-98	1992-93
Average cost per book acquired (£ sterling)		8.65	8.68
Average books allowed out		9	8
Average permitted loan (weeks)		3.3	3.4
Average duration of loan (days)		22	22

Books borrowed

Source: Registrar of Public Lending Right

Category analysis

Over one million

Libraries - annual loans over one million

Aylesbury
Chelmsford
Colchester
Croydon Central
Milton Keynes
Nottingham Central
Southend

Authors - estimated loans over one million

Janet & Allan Ahlberg
Enid Blyton
Agatha Christie
Catherine Cookson
Josephine Cox
John Cunliffe
Roald Dahl
Dick Francis
Jack Higgins
Dick King-Smith
Ann M Martin
Ruth Rendell
Danielle Steel
R L Stine

Source: Registrar of Public Lending Right

Public library services to children

	Total (000s)	Per capita
Bookstock	24,500	2.17
Book additions	3,200	0.28
Book issues	103,000	9.06
Books on loan	7,500	0.66
% on loan	30.7
Replenishment rate	13.2
Stock turnover	4.2
Average charge for requests (£)	0.40
Average age of transfer to adult services	15 years 10 months
Average population per staff	10,922
Professional librarians	611

1999 L.I.S.T. online: Academic library statistics

1999 L.I.S.T. online: Index

1998 L.I.S.T. online

1997 L.I.S.T. online