PUBLIC LIBRARY STATISTICS

Lending

Staff, opening etc.

	1998-99	1993-94
No. of authorities	208	167
Professional librarians per 10,000 population	1.07	1.23
Total staff per 10,000 population	4.36	4.70
Service points open for 45 hours or more	704	749
Service points open 30-44 hours	1,546	1,644
Service points open 10-29 hours	1,717	1,682
Service points open <10 hours	260	424
Mobile service points	664	692
Population per service point	12,794	12,201
Total service point hours per week	141,884	148,320

Public Library Support Services to Schools

	1998-99	1993-94
Professional librarians	356	458
Expenditure per pupil (£ sterling)	5.16	5.19
Bookstock per pupil	3.6	3.7

Public libraries also serve the housebound, prisons and hospitals.

Use

Total population 59,234,700

Registered borrowers 34,356,000

	Totals (000s)	Per member	Per head of population
Bookstock	121,752	3.54	2.06
Books acquired	984	0.03	0.02
Annual book issues	460,011	13.39	7.77
Audio-visual acquired	1,381	0.04	0.02
Audio-visual issues p.a.	37,864	1.10	0.64
Total items on loan	30,268	0.88	0.51
Enquiries handled p.a.	61,356	1.79	1.04
Visits p.a.	344,519	10.03	5.82
Net revenue expenditure (£1000 sterling)	744,001	21.66	12.56
Materials bought (£1000 sterling)	106,599	3.10	1.80
		1998-99	1993-94
Average cost per book acquired (£ sterling)		8.37	8.91
Average books allowed out		9.8	8.6
Average permitted loan (weeks)		3.3	3.4
Average duration of loan (days)		22	22

Books borrowed

Source: Registrar of Public Lending Right

Category analysis

Over one million

Libraries - annual loans over one million

Chelmsford
Colchester
Croydon Central
Milton Keynes Central
Southend

Authors - estimated loans over one million

Janet & Allan Ahlberg
Enid Blyton
Agatha Christie
Catherine Cookson
Josephine Cox
John Cunliffe
Roald Dahl
Lucy Daniels
Dick Francis
Jack Higgins
Dick King-Smith
Ann M Martin
Ruth Rendell
Danielle Steel
R L Stine

Source: Registrar of Public Lending Right

Public library services to children

	Total (000s)	Per capita
Bookstock	24,320	2.1
Book additions	3,688	0.32
Book issues	107,575	9.5
Books on loan	7,704	0.68
% on loan	31.7
Replenishment rate	15.2
Stock turnover	4.4
Average charge for requests (£)	0.38
Average age of transfer to adult services	16 years 0 months
Average population per staff	16,300
Professional librarians	633

2000 L.I.S.T. online: Academic library statistics

2000 L.I.S.T. online: Index

1999 L.I.S.T. online

1998 L.I.S.T. online

1997 L.I.S.T. online