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| 2019 | 2020 | Percentage change | |
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| 2019 - 2020 | |||
| Loans at the libraries | 1 675 678 | 1 187 660 | -29.1 |
| Library material (NOK 1000) | 611 507 | 646 170 | 5.7 |
| Full-time equivalents, permanent employees December total | 1 559 | 1 600 | 2.6 |
| Formalized teaching participation | 114 528 | 94 829 | -17.2 |
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Table 1
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 | |
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| Physical collection | ||||||
| Books physical | 13 788 876 | 3 139 177 | 7 270 145 | 566 266 | 773 724 | 2 039 564 |
| Periodicals - number of subscriptions, physical | 79 244 | 6 722 | 41 835 | 4 186 | 9 890 | 16 611 |
| Yearbook, monographic serial, report serial and the like physical | 1 315 485 | 600 935 | 527 241 | 39 609 | 21 908 | 125 792 |
| Manuscripts physical | 16 069 388 | 16 000 000 | 6 710 | 46 | 398 | 62 234 |
| Graphic and cartographic material physical | 6 771 747 | 6 743 566 | 12 906 | 1 051 | 823 | 13 401 |
| Musical score documents physical | 309 450 | 99 577 | 134 141 | 60 825 | 4 546 | 10 361 |
| Digital collection | ||||||
| Books digital | 8 753 991 | 596 316 | 4 686 201 | 1 183 744 | 1 944 964 | 342 766 |
| Periodicals - number of subscriptions, digital | 1 100 051 | 6 285 | 533 205 | 165 768 | 228 518 | 166 275 |
| Yearbooks, monographic serials, report serials and the like digital | 145 800 | 784 | 102 788 | 15 483 | 14 152 | 12 593 |
| Manuscripts digital | 896 996 | 874 747 | 942 | 2 | 3 | 21 302 |
| Graphic and cartographic material digital | 2 996 038 | 2 982 779 | 6 185 | 2 278 | 4 084 | 712 |
| Musical score documents digital | 54 809 | .. | 54 697 | 63 | 49 | .. |
Table 2
Total number of loans from the Academic and special libraries
| 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | |
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| 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 | ||||
| All academic and special libraries2 | 1 483 184 | 1 407 259 | 1 411 673 | 1 015 768 |
| Universities with faculty and departemental library | 692 812 | 857 158 | 843 394 | 559 050 |
| Libraries at scientific colleges | 145 128 | 138 266 | 136 749 | 86 463 |
| Libraries at colleges | 537 290 | 311 556 | 318 969 | 202 645 |
| Special libraries and libraries at health institutions | 107 954 | 100 279 | 112 561 | 167 610 |
See all 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
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.
Definitions
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Non-local loans: loans from one library to another or loans to private persons/institutions
Databases 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.
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Based on international standard ISO 2789 (Information and documentation - International library statistics)
Administrative information
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Name: Academic and special libraries
Topic: Culture and recreation
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Division for Education and Culture Statistics
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The figures are given on national and county Level.
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Annual.
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None.
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The National Library is the owner of the data and compiles statistics of their own.
Background
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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.
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Users of the statistics are: Ministry of Culture, Ministry of Education and Research, the library sector, and individuals interested in various documents related to information, research, education and recreation.
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No external users have access to the statistics and analyses before they are published and accessible simultaneously for all users on ssb.no at 8 am. Prior to this, a minimum of three months' advance notice is given in the Statistics Release Calendar. This is one of Statistics Norway’s key principles for ensuring that all users are treated equally.
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Data, based on reports from the National Library, are useful for LIBECON (http://www.libecon.org). The reports are based on international standard ISO 2789, Information and documentation - International library statistics.
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Not relevant
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Not relevant
Production
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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.
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Sources are the libraries themselves. However, the statistics are prepared in order to make it available through professional library systems such as BIBSYS.
The survey intends to cover the whole library field.
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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.
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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Not relevant
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None.
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Loans excludes renewals from 2012 and onwards.
Accuracy and reliability
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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.
Contact
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Elisabeth Haraldsrud
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Line Gjermshusengen
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Hilde Sofie Frydenberg