Special and research libraries
07.01.40 - Libraries, museums, archives, and other dissemination of culture
Yearly
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360 - Division for Education Statistics
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The purpose is to show statistics from activities executed during the year by the special and research libraries. The statistics intend to give useful information to central and local authorities and others that in some way or other are involved in the running or financing of a library. The library statistics has been published once a year since 1980 in co-operation with the National Office for Research and Special Libraries and The Norwegian Archive, Library and Museum Authority. From the publication year 2011 in co-operation with the National Library.
Users of the statistics are: Ministry of Cultural and Church Affairs, Ministry of Education and Research, the library sector, and individuals interested in various documents related to information, research, education and recreation.
The statistics cover special and research libraries in universities and state colleges, in public and private special libraries and the National Library. The National Library updates a list including all the libraries. The statistics include figures of collections, increase and decrease of books and periodicals, printed and electronic. In addition figures are given on expenditure and persons employed.
Sources are the libraries themselves. However, the statistics are prepared in order to make it available through professional library systems such as BIBSYS.
The survey intends to cover the whole library field.
Questionnaires are dispatched and collected by the National Library. They are also responsible for reminding and for updating of the population. A great part of the libraries deliver their data electronically, by filling in the questionnaires which they can find on an Internet website. Statistics Norway receives a prepared data file from the National Library based on collected data. This file forms the basis of the official statistics.
Logical addition and coherence is checked. Besides, a comparison with the questionnaires from previous year is made in order to uncover great deviations.
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Non-local loans: loans from one library to another or loans to private persons/institutions
Databases are divided in following groups:
- Reference databases; a collection of bibliographic references in a database
- Full text databases; a collection of original texts
- Other databases are for example surveys/catalogues, dictionaries, e.t.c.
Based on international standard ISO 2789 (Information and documentation - International library statistics)
Some libraries do not answer all questions. The reason might be that they do not have data to report, wrong interpretation of some questions, or respondents might also unconsciously have given erroneous data, influencing the statistics.
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Although the response rate is nearly 100 per cent, dropouts would cause small errors comparing with years before.
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Data, based on reports from the National Library, are useful for LIBECON (http://www.libecon.org). The reports are based on international standard ISO 2789, Information and documentation - International library statistics.
http://www.ssb.no/ffbibl/
The National Library is the owner of the data and compiles statistics of their own.
2011 © Statistics Norway