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Academic and special libraries
Statistics on academic and special libraries at Norwegian universities and university colleges, public and private special libraries at research institutes and the National Library. These libraries are designed to provide services to students, teachers, researchers and those at the institution of which the library is part. The statistics show a summary of the activity during the year.
Selected figures from the statistics
- Academic and special libraries, main results.Download table as ...Academic and special libraries, main results.
2023 Physical events 943 Digital events 111 Hybrid events 179 Library loans 1 383 983 Man-years per 31.12, in library services 1 545 Number of academic and special libraries 103 Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ... - Collection statistics of a few selected groups of physical and digital resourcesDownload table as ...Collection statistics of a few selected groups of physical and digital resources
All academic and special libraries National libraries Universities with faculty and departemental library Libraries at scientific colleges Libraries at other colleges Special libraries and libraries at health institutions Books physical 9 329 867 1 311 680 5 630 572 447 965 500 057 1 439 593 Books digital 9 089 790 685 457 4 500 114 1 302 070 1 960 233 641 916 Periodicals physical 187 417 55 629 100 598 7 415 4 399 19 376 Periodicals digital 1 053 010 1 349 487 588 181 174 223 208 159 691 Manuscripts physical 16 074 406 16 000 000 8 918 34 415 65 039 Manuscripts digital 1 040 587 1 014 134 940 0 19 25 494 Graphic and cartographic material physical 7 005 300 6 985 954 13 174 1 042 777 4 353 Graphic and cartographic material digital 4 793 182 4 770 323 5 211 2 171 5 133 10 344 Musical score documents physical 311 168 102 856 138 532 61 588 3 137 5 055 Musical score documents digital 61 927 6 329 55 575 13 10 0 Realia 2 193 0 1 180 40 902 71 Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ... - Library useDownload table as ...Library use1
Number of loans1 Primary loan of realia Downloads/streaming in total Unique downloads Open Access articles from paid resources All academic and special libraries2 1 383 983 8 432 26 699 261 4 208 227 Universities with faculty and departemental library 598 443 5 578 21 185 345 3 540 542 Libraries at scientific colleges 102 179 297 1 985 012 155 757 Libraries at other colleges 231 786 2 515 2 376 949 254 143 Special libraries and libraries at health institutions 243 130 42 1 147 227 255 500 1The number of physical loans is the sum of inital loan registration to primary users and others, including interlibrary loans. 2Academic and special librarys, without the National Libraries. Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ...
About the statistics
The information under «About the statistics» was last updated 4 June 2024.
PDA/DDA: Patron Driven Acquisition/Demand Driven Acquisition refers to non-purchased titles that the library offers, meaning titles that can potentially be activated.
Periodicals: Yearbooks, series, report series, regular conference reports and similar publications.
Manuscripts: Original documents of all kinds that are handwritten or typewritten.
Graphic materials: Documents where images constitute the main informational content, such as graphic art, reproductions, art prints, photographs, posters, technical drawings, and similar items. In this statistic, no distinction is made between graphic and cartographic documents.
Cartographic materials: Representations in a reduced scale of a concrete or abstract phenomenon located in time and space. This includes two- and three-dimensional maps, globes, plans, topographic models, relief maps/tactile models, and aerial photographic presentations, but does not include atlases and other cartographic documents in codex form or microform, as well as AV documents. In this statistics, no distinction is made between graphic and cartographic documents.
Musical score documents: Documents that mainly contain the reproduction of music in written form, usually by means of musical notation. They can appear as loose sheets or in codex form.
AV documents: Documents where the content is dominated by sound and/or images and require the use of special equipment to be viewed or heard (e.g., phonograph records, audio tapes, CDs, audiobooks, slides, etc.).
Other library materials: Remaining information-bearing materials such as patents and microforms.
Realia: Non-information-bearing materials that are made available and registered as borrowed. This can include various types of equipment such as AV equipment, devices for reading digital files, various accessories such as chargers and similar items, tools, equipment for recreational activities, etc.
Tasks: The sum of systematic searches and professional support/research.
Primary target group: Individuals and institutions within the library's defined user group as of December 31 in the statistical year.
Employees: The number of permanent employees as of December 31 who work with the library's service offerings.
Man-years: The number of agreed full-time man-years as of December 31 associated with the operation or development of the library services. Man-years in administrative positions related to the operation of library services are included.
Interlibrary lending: Loans/copies to another library under a different administrative unit (e.g., another university). For the borrowing library, this is an incoming loan. Includes the number of received requests, the number of dispatched loans, and the number of dispatched copies to other libraries.
Interlibrary borrowing: Incoming loans are loans from another library under a different administrative unit (e.g., another university). For the lending library, this is an interlibrary loan. It reports the number of dispatched requests, the number of received loans, and the number of received copies from other libraries. Loans from another library under the same administrative unit are not counted as incoming loans.
Based on international standard ISO 2789 (Information and documentation - International library statistics)
Name: Academic and special libraries
Topic: Culture and recreation
Division for Education and Culture Statistics
The figures are given on national and county level.
Annual.
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Collected and revised data are stored securely by Statistics Norway in compliance with applicable legislation on data processing.
Statistics Norway can grant access to the source data (de-identified or anonymised microdata) on which the statistics are based, for researchers and public authorities for the purposes of preparing statistical results and analyses. Access can be granted upon application and subject to conditions. Refer to the details about this at Access to data from Statistics Norway
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 Culture and Equality, Ministry of Education and Research, the library sector, and individuals interested in various documents related to information, research, education and recreation.
No external users have access to statistics before they are released at 8 a.m. on ssb.no after at least three months’ advance notice in the release calendar. This is one of the most important principles in Statistics Norway for ensuring the equal treatment of users.
The statistics are developed, produced and disseminated pursuant to Act no. 32 of 21 June 2019 relating to official statistics and Statistics Norway (the Statistics Act).
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.
The survey intends to cover the whole library field. The National Library is the owner of the data and compiles statistics of their own.
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.
Editing is defined here as checking, examining and amending data. 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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Loans excludes renewals from 2012 and onwards.
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.
Although the response rate is nearly 100 per cent, dropouts would cause small errors comparing with years before.
A revision is a planned change to figures that have already been published, for example when releasing final figures as a follow-up to published preliminary figures. See also Statistics Norway’s principles for revisions.