ht. Libr. Rev. (1978) lo,5949

INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN CITY LIBRARIES (INTAMEL)

International Statistics of City Libraries, 1976

J. EYSSEN*

( 1) Name of town. (2) Number ofinhabitants. (3) Bookstockoflibrarysystem (31.12.1976). (4) Book stock of central library. (5) Number ofperiodicals (i.e. oftitles, not ofvolumes) regularly received. (6) Number ofaudio-visual media (non-book material) :

(a) Number of slides ; (b) Number of records and music cassettes; (c) Number of tapes (reels) ; (d) Number ofmicrofilms and/or microfiches (transparent) ; (e) Number of microcards and/or microprints (opaque) ; (f) Number offilms (reels); (g) Number ofvideo-cassettes; (h) Number ofart-prints, paintings, etc. ; (i) Number of games ; (k) Numberofmaps; (1) Number of musical scores.

(7) Loans in 1976 (total). (8) Loans in 1976 per head ofinhabitant. (9) Loans in 1976 per head of total staff.

(10) Total budget for 1977. (11) Budget per head ofinhabitant. (12) Acquisitions budget (incl. bookbinding costs). ( 13) Acquisitions budget per head of inhabitant. (14) Periodicals budget (within the general acquisitions budget). (15) Budget for non-book material (within the general acquisitions budget). (16) Staff salaries. (17) Number ofstaff:

(a) total; (b) full-time; (c) part-time;

( 18) Number of librarians : (a) total; (b) full-time; (c) part-time;

* City Library, Hannover, Germany.

60 INTAMEL

(19) Number of branch libraries. (20) Number of mobile libraries (buses). (2 1) Average opening hours (per week) :

(a) central library; (b) branch libraries.

(22) Average loan period.

Index of Cities 1976

Akron 48

Belfast Berlin Birmingham Bremen Brooklyn, N.Y.

49 7

17 34 55

Camden/London 53 Cape Town 23 Cleveland 25

Dallas Delhi Denver Detroit Dortmund Stadt-u.

Landesbibliothek Dortmund Stadt-

btichereien Dusseldorf Duisburg

22 56 39 12

30

31 32 33

Edinburgh 44 Essen 26

Glasgow Gothenburg

21 47

Hamburg 10 Hannover 37 Helsinki 41 Hong Kong 57 Houston 15

Johannesburg 13

KBln 20

Liverpool 35 London/Camden 53 London/City 51 London/Westminster 52 Los Angeles P.L. 3

Manhattan, N.Y. 2 Milan0 9 Miinchen 14

New York/Manhattan 2 New York/Brooklyn 55 New York/Queens 6

Oslo 45

Paris 4 Philadelphia 8 Praha 16

Queens, N.Y. 6

San Diego San Francisco St Louis Seattle Sheffield

24 27 38 40 36

5 29

Singapore Stockholm

The Hague 23 Tokyo Metrop. C.L. 1 Toledo 42 Toronto 54 Tucson 46 Tunis 19

Vienna

Wuppertal

Zagreb Ziirich

11

50

28 18

jvotes n.a. = not available.

2 * In addition to the book stock the Library for the Blind and Handicapped collec- tion includes a total of 134 509 braille, talking book and cass. item. t Includes spoken as well as music cass., also videocass. $ 16 mm prints, not reels. § Posters and pictures.

3 * Additionally 500 000 vol uncatalogued, not included in No. 3. t Filmstrips.

4 * Not branches = libraries. t 40 hours = full time libraries, 7-26 hours = part- time libraries.

5 * Microfilms. t Microfiches. $ Films. 4 Filmstrips. 11 Including 1305 loans from Refer. Services Div. 7 Two full-time, two part-time.

7 * 30 days.

J. EYSSEN 61

8 * Records only. t Includes cassettes. $ Including two regional libraries. 5 Micro- film reels. 1) Microfiches. W = wintertime; S = summertime.

9 * 2200 Central libr. t 65 1 branches. $ 15 days.

10 * Including book stock and loans in prisons. t Plus 54 small branches run by non- professional staff and 15 prison-libraries.

12 * 17days.

13 * Included in bookstock.

14 * 60 persons working half-days. t Eight persons working half-days. $ Twenty-one hospital and old peoples’ home libraries.

16 * Included in the subject collection. t With secondary or university training. z Ten district libraries, 72 branches, 49 libraries and 2 branches in the joined communities.

17 * 28 000 records, 3000 cassettes, 7000 microfilms, 33 000 microfiches. t Thirty- one full-time + 14 part-time.

19 * In reorganisation.

20 * In planning, 7 For 1977. z Including extra building budget for Central Library. 9 Including six special libraries.

2 1 L = lending library. R = reference library.

22 * 13 775 records; 15 472 cassettes.

24 * One person working 10 hours per week = 0.25, etc.

26 * Library for the blind.

29 * 158 working by the hours. t 38 branch libraries; 9 children’s libraries; 30 hospital libraries. $ House of Culture.

30 * Limited use of the library on account ofrebuilding.

3 1 * No. of cuttings.

34 * Series. t Plus one Graphothek.

37 * 570 000 budget for building up three new branches. t 3.4Osfr referring to the total budget.

40 * 165 newspapers. t Sets. $ Included in 6(d).

47 * Plus 15 400 talking books.

50 * 610 series.

51 * D=daytime, N=night-time population. t Playing card packs. ‘: Including two reference libraries.

52 * D=daytime, N=night-time population. 7 Government publications: 257 840.

53 * Three central libraries: Swiss Cottage/Holborn/St Pancras.

The dates and figures of nos 5457 arrived too late for inclusion in the main survey.

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