Statistics Norway

Special and research libraries

1 Special and research libraries. 2007
  Total The National Library Libraries of universities and colleges with faculty and departemental library Libraries of colleges and other schools of higher education Special libraries, public Special libraries, private
Number of libraries1  322 1 72 81  146 22
             
Collections            
Pysical units 49 190 707 8 547 394 13 972 416 2 858 614 21 808 466 2 003 817
Books and publication series, number of volumes, total 20 167 092 2 929 531 10 453 764 2 720 300 3 531 059  532 438
Of which            
Open shelves 3 851 167 51 905 1 178 484 1 285 734 1 039 241  295 803
Gross increase  486 046  139 531  148 728  101 817 86 982 8 988
Manuscripts  195 469 68 353 46 600 12 146 20 463 47 907
Microfiches 1 714 695  286 066  393 193 7 513  995 312 32 611
Music notes  243 214 72 443  133 887 26 913 9 954 17
Audio visual documents  851 054  669 962 83 830 75 427 17 067 4 768
Graphic and cartographic material 4 332 253 2 199 861  691 700 3 486 54 589 1 382 617
Patents 19 197 371 - 2 156 954 - 17 040 417 -
Electronic documents 41 787 2 338 10 801 8 721 17 596 2 331
Other material 2 447 772 2 318 840 1 687 4 108  122 009 1 128
             
Digital documents            
Digital documents  950 891 951  950 171 909  278 776  400 082 31 606 9 578
             
Databases            
Databases 4 846  146 1 091 1 167 2 285  157
             
Current title series            
Periodicals, printed 98 373 12 249 25 791 14 549 23 892 21 892
Periodicals, electronic  400 709 -  104 699  177 209  117 942  859
Newspapers printed 2 546  253  556  687  852  198
Newspapers electronic  886 21  113  104  588 60
             
Issues            
Number of local loans issued 3 621 046 46 064 1 759 493 1 525 248  234 940 55 301
Number of non-local loans issued  482 290  109 678  224 841  117 610 24 947 5 214
Of which            
Domestic  464 488  109 678  211 279  114 705 23 793 5 033
Foreign countries 17 802 0 13 562 2 905 1 154  181
             
Special loans            
Dispatched orders  310 799 4 221  141 878  101 308 55 865 7 527
Total lending, physical units  302 806 3 425  127 798 94 590 69 368 7 625
Of which            
Domestic  237 946 2 056  101 547 86 059 44 463 3 821
Foreign countries 64 860 1 369 26 251 8 531 24 905 3 804
             
Personnel            
Number of employed, total 1 817  361  668  418  313 57
Of which            
Librarians 1 250  222  411  329  260 28
Other position  567  139  257 89 53 29
             
Man-years worked, total 1 584.3  361.0  564.7  344.5  270.3 43.8
Of which            
Librarians 1 158.8  222.0  379.7  293.9  239.1 24.2
Other position  425.5  139.0  185.0 50.6 31.2 19.7
             
Finances            
Expenses, total
(in NOK 1 000)		 1 351 018  316 832  613 908  238 605  149 548 32 125
Revenue from services, total 43 557 7 220 23 049 2 197 1 981 9 110
1  Institute libraries of UMB are only partly included.
Source: The Norwegian Archive, Library and Museum Authorithy.

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