Academic and special libraries
Updated: 5 June 2023
Next update: Not yet determined
| 2021 | 2022 | Percentage change | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 - 2022 | |||
| Loans at the libraries | 1 301 498 | 1 321 285 | 1.5 |
| Library material (NOK 1000) | 651 069 | 696 445 | 7.0 |
| Full-time equivalents, permanent employees December total | 1 634 | 1 622 | -0.7 |
| Formalized teaching participation | 111 347 | 116 119 | 4.3 |
Selected tables and figures from this statistics
- 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 colleges Special libraries and libraries at health institutions Physical collection Books physical 13 609 076 3 265 645 7 132 734 549 736 805 717 1 855 244 Periodicals - number of subscriptions, physical 196 321 120 885 39 788 3 997 9 819 21 832 Yearbook, monographic serial, report serial and the like physical 1 279 804 605 654 507 271 29 298 20 938 116 643 Graphic and cartographic material physical 4 036 707 3 984 941 13 050 1 045 806 36 865 Digital collection Books digital 11 302 343 660 246 6 327 950 1 366 087 2 591 435 356 625 Periodicals - number of subscriptions, digital 1 137 583 1 526 498 723 165 215 283 505 188 614 Yearbooks, monographic serials, report serials and the like digital 112 654 791 63 748 13 893 19 981 14 241 Manuscripts digital 986 749 961 528 940 .. 11 24 270 Graphic and cartographic material digital 4 379 944 4 326 566 6 163 2 150 4 074 40 991 Musical score documents digital 61 788 6 232 55 530 14 12 .. Explanation of symbolsDownload table as ... - Total number of loans from the Academic and special librariesDownload table as ...Total number of loans from the Academic and special libraries1
2019 2020 2021 2022 All academic and special libraries2 1 411 673 1 015 768 1 112 961 1 115 120 Universities with faculty and departemental library 843 394 559 050 590 606 599 262 Libraries at scientific colleges 136 749 86 463 86 949 94 759 Libraries at colleges 318 969 202 645 230 868 243 409 Special libraries and libraries at health institutions 112 561 167 610 204 538 177 690 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 ...
More figures from this statistics
- 10869: Downloads and loans at academic and special libraries, by library type
- 10870: Stock and increase in academic and special libraries, by library type
- 10872: Training in library use and primary target group for academic and special libraries, by library type
- 10871: Expenses and revenue at academic and special libraries, by library type (NOK 1 000)
- 10873: Personnel in academic and special libraries, by library type
About the statistics
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.
Non-local loans
Loans from one library to another or loans to private persons/institutions
Databases
They 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)
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.
None.
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.
