Statistics Norway

Special and research libraries

1   Special and research libraries. 2003
  Total National libraries Libraries of universities1 Libraries of colleges
and other schools
of higher education
Special libraries, public Special libraries, private
Number of libraries  336 3 71  100  134 28
             
Collections            
Pysical units 44 807 860 5 198 286 13 609 578 3 194 551 20 863 446 1 941 999
Books and publication series, number of volumes, total 19 273 874 2 347 904 10 189 654 3 052 474 3 002 229  681 613
Of which            
Open shelves 3 001 038 29 562  857 140 1 053 298  588 492  472 546
Gross increase  546 839  134 405  166 396  125 292  102 181 18 565
Manuscripts  155 956 36 371 40 665 14 348 9 029 55 543
Microfiches 1 581 070  159 730  392 748 15 315  970 661 42 616
Music notes  338 032  206 294 91 212 38 141 2 375 10
Audio visual documents  604 845  422 646 58 677 70 129 50 847 2 546
Graphic and cartographic material 3 983 475 2 023 755  671 059  839  136 320 1 151 502
Patents 18 725 262 - 2 156 954 - 16 568 308 -
Electronic documents 25 063 1 586 8 248 1 360 13 459  410
Other material  120 283 -  361 1 945  110 218 7 759
Digital documents            
Digital documents 11 210 326 11 074 190 67 594 62 270 6 135  137
Databases            
Databases 3 689 75  685 1 185 1 514  230
Current title series            
Periodicals, printed  168 677 64 848 34 961 19 766 25 510 23 592
Periodicals, electronic  100 696  248 38 275 42 335 19 219  619
Newspapers printed 2 756  445  571  775  851  114
Newspapers electronic  135 41 11 21 54 8
             
Issues            
Number of local loans issued 3 604 285 19 087 1 607 783 1 488 037  380 902  108 476
Number of non-local loans issued  408 574 41 149  226 304  108 194 27 351 5 576
Of which            
Domestic  384 812 40 102  209 530  104 411 25 537 5 232
Foreign countries 23 762 1 047 16 774 3 783 1 814  344
             
Special loans            
Dispatched orders  320 264 2 927  148 777 90 382 66 546 11 632
Total lending, physical units  300 276 2 080  131 536 81 935 74 468 10 257
Of which            
Domestic  229 130  284  102 961 71 323 48 653 5 909
Foreign countries 71 146 1 796 28 575 10 612 25 815 4 348
             
Personnel            
Number of employed, total2 1 627  362  479  434  291 61
Of which            
Librarian  960  157  237  299  227 40
Other position  667  205  242  135 64 21
             
Man-years worked, total 1 5813  333  6023  355  244 47
Of which            
Librarian  963  143  309  279  199 33
Other position  6183  190  2933 77 45 14
             
Finances            
Expenses, total (in NOK 1 000) 1 091 297  215 514  507 025  204 880  136 416 27 462
Revenue from services, total 51 715 10 501 32 680 2 661 5 648  225
1  Figures include scientific colleges.
2  Man-years for University of Oslo Library are not available.
3  The figures are corrected 4 June 2004.
Source: The Norwegian Archive, Library and Museum Authorithy.

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