| Libraries | Number of libraries | Books, volumes | Audio-visual material | Periodicals, current titles1 | Loans, all media | Expenditure, acquisition | Persons employed per 31 Dec. | Number of full-time equivalent | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Registered items 1 000 | NOK 1 000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Public libraries | 744 | 618 619 | 2 494 | 30 | 24 977 | 139 459 | 2 492 | 1 783 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School libraries at primary schools2 | 2 221 | 10 509 | .. | .. | 3.. | .. | 4.. | .. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| School libraries at secondary schools5 | 369 | 3 382 | .. | 13 | 1 088 | 31 124 | .. | .. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| County libraries | 18 | 622 | .. | .. | 502 | 7 952 | .. | 159 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Including newspapers. |
| 2 | The figures correspond to about 82,6 per cent of the public school libraries. |
| 3 | Books only. |
| 4 | Professional staff. |
| 5 | Figures include reports from 407 of 457 schools, a response rate of about 89 per cent. 35 of the responding schools answered they did not have a school library. |
| 6 | One library have not reported figures for stock of volumes. |
| Source: Norwegian Archive, Library and Museum Authority. | |
| More information: http://www.nb.no/Bibliotekutvikling/Tall-og-fakta/Statistikk-for-norske-bibliotek | |