Int. Libr. Rev. (1973) 5, I13-115

I N T A M E L W O R K I N G PARTY, ITALY, 1972 RESEARCH STUDIES

(6) Metropolitan City Library Statistics (1971) Compiled byJ. EYSSEN~

A table setting out various statistics for Metropolitan City Libraries appears overleaf

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Population Total

Book Stock Book Stock

Central Total Issues

Issues per Head of pop.

Hong Kong Osaka

Los Angeles Paris Yokohama Berlin-W.

Toronto, Metropol. Libr. Philadelphia Hamburg Milano Vienna Torino

Birmingham

Praha Glasgow Cincinnati Baltimore Stockholm San Diego Essen Toronto Frankfurt Liverpool Dfisseldorf Cape Town Dortmund

Copenhagen Zagreb New Orleans Bremen Wuppertal Seattle Sheffield HeMnki Hannover The Hague Amman Oslo Edinburgh Duisburg G6teborg Vancouver Minneapolis Tulsa City of London

City of Westminster Ghana, Territory Osaka (Pref.) Los Angeles, County

3,950,802 2,980,409

2,900,000 2,590,771 2,300,000 2,096,199

2,000,000 1,948,609 1,793,000 1,730,000 1,614,841 1,200,000

1,084,180

1,082,302 927,948 924,018 905,759 730,300 722,300 964,107 682,898 671,529 667,000 656,914 651,090 645,348

627,800 602,150 585,793 583,473 550,000 530,831 525,230 522,235 520,000 520,000 500,000 481,000 465,421 452,2O0 451,802 450,000 434,400 401,663 400,000

5,000 237,25O

8,545,561 7,620,000 2,369,516

385,443 248,365

3,900,000 1,350,000

224,934 2,015,820

506,983

2,660,000 1,383,647 1,747,250

560,418 410,780

2,171,831

1,708,740 1,913,166 2,787,258 2,219,965 1,401,800 1,116,451

627,433 805,247 390,154

2,309,291 342,560 790,535 292,661

1,250,605 709,067 623,581 476,946 450,000

1,449,870 1,253,409 1,131,284

862,770 450,000

27,876 880,000

1,193,906 484,046

1,138,530 678,537

1,283,975 511,642 378,000

1,099,539 757,645 767,339

3,559,630

230,167 197,989

1,500,000

139,422 506,983

669,048 1,205,000

97,596 985,250

70,833 287,934

884,566 152,388 607,838 890,256

1,916,408 1,132,085

390,000 593,047 232,463

103,761 1,468,177

85,369 60,019 74,408

346,571 219,599 314,115 66,514

400,000 817,879 393,112 322,923 371,554 200,000

27,876 c 500,000

557,905 197,672 336,099 368,394 747,497 284,451 140,000

357,139 30,000

558,989

1,385,827 322,989

13,600,000 3,732,643

264,361 8,474,988t

703,320t- ~ 1,549,562

5,507,425 2,350,042 1,720,059

76,521

9,656,496

4, 716,543 8,241,828 5,628,513 3,256,304 5,049,452 4,010,061 1,858,130 3,852,399 1,348,749

11,773,719 966,349

4,516,374 1,178,022

4,368,115 1,701,730 1,320,477 1,819,067

644,850 3,859,232 6,114,161 4,326,300 2,693,783 2,450,000

14,549 1,327,174 6,937,666 2,088,320 4,000,915 3,859,097 2,676,062 1,641,270 1,312,562

3,526,461

347,713 11,869,950

0-35 0.10

4.7 1.44 0.15 4.4

0.77

3.1 1.35 1"06 0.06

9'13

4-36 8'9 6.1 3.6 6-85 5-55 2"68 5.6 2'09

17'65 1 '47 6.9 1.8

7'0 2'8 2"2 3-1 1"2 7"2

11'6 8.28 5"18 4-7 O'O2 2-7

14.96 4"6 9"0 8"5 6'16 4'10 3'3

262'0 16

0-05 5'00

M E T R O P O L I T A N C I T Y L I B R A R Y S T A T I S T I C S 115

Issues per head

sta~

Total Cost per Acquisitions Acquisi- No. No. expend, inhabitant and book- tion branches mobiles

binding costs per inhabitant

Average opening hours

Central Branches

12,017 2,692

11,523 15,550

7,553 14,186

6,006

13,908 8,732

10,424 90O

37,720

12,543 24,312 11,014 4,810

14,636 14,770 12,213 12,841 12,488 41,241

7,491 12,615 12,144

12,625 9,299 7,907 8,231 7,498

i0,024 22,396 19,143 14,801 12,250

1,323 (145) 9,153

32,268 11,349 10,000 14,139

7,460 10,801 11,897

15,625

2,674 12,654

2,774,000 0.70 876,300 0.22 3 - - 4,517,833 1.60 213,560 0.07 2 1

48,800,000 17.0 8,000,000 2.70 61 5 9,734,708 3.75 2,106,060 0.84 79 - -

412,662 1.40 264,680 0-10 - - 2 20,677,245 9.90 2,542,000 1.30 89 11 4,429,295 2.20 619,030 0.30

14,280,139 7.13 2,830,188 1.42 - - - - 48,000,000 24.60 5,200,000 2.67 52 3 18,092,000 10.10 2,375,000 1-32 52 2 6,370,000 3.70 990,000 0-57 32 - - 3,766,700 2-35 500,000 0-30 53 3 2,004,276 1.67 266,447 0.22 14 - -

12,720,953 11-73 2,767,451 2.51 35

8,904,383 8.23 1,837,370 1.70 107 12,185,590 13.13 2,358,450 2.54 32 22,398,990 24-04 3,260,559 3.34 40 26,448,149 29.00 2,606,500 3.00 28 20,444,600 27.99 3,422,500 4.69 43 13,977,590 19.35 2,048,704 2.84 22 6,564,285 9.46 670,357 0.96 21

16,650,000 24-6 2,230,500 3.29 24 5,432,675 7.88 993,457 1.47 18

10,576,940 15.85 2,557,500 3.83 23 4,018,551 6.12 680,955 1.03 13 7,871,959 7.40 1,524,400 2.3 42 3,520,154 5-45 530,200 0.82 18

16,388,700 26.0 4,479,900 7.0 19 1,904,100 3.16 310,206 0.51 10 6,725,600 11.48 840,267 1.43 10 7,282,143 12.50 722,738 1.24 33 2,707,200 4-9 379,500 0.69 - -

14,489,742 27-11 1,817,111 3.42 22 8,577,454 16.36 2,555,995 4,79 27

10,304,590 19,73 1,490,313 2-85 39 8,560,852 16.46 1,420,118 2-73 17 5,425,000 10.4 930,000 1,80 34

116,900 0.23 24,500 0.05 12 6,390,186 13.28 1,115,605 2.32 5,079,850 10.94 1,169,630 2.51 9,298,080 12.60 1,854,000 4.10

22,500,000 50.0 1,992,000 3.5 11,123,372 24.68 1,694,620 3.76 17,733,164 33.60 3,006,546 6.91 5,986,308 16.24 706,184 1.52 4,137,302 10-33 873,446 2.17

827.18 174.30 10,427,518 44.0 2,264,329 10.0

- - - - 620,060 0-07 1,299,526 0.27 547,650 0.07

53,764,622 19.40 6,589,570 2.78

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3 2 2 3 1

2 1 1 3 2

2

3 3 3 3

35 1 13 3 20 1 18 5 11 1 15 3 18 3 2 4

11 17 4

94 16

56 56 76.5 76.5

48 66 48 - - 6-50 56 56 49 45

26 69 64 40 45 24-35 51 18-50 32 24 63.5 15 72 56

full time 63 30

part time 50 28 72 63 69 47 68 40"3 58.5 78"5 52 48 33 17.3 - - 45 48 23 68 63 43 30 52 40 49.5 28 25 62 2 4 4 6 60 55 68.5 47 48 20-30 27 69 40 72 47 58 6-58 42 3547.5 50 20 60 72 36 64 61.5 37 26.6 88 52-67

68.5/72.5 45 65 38.5-65 80 47 48 40

1 6 0 5 8

9 60 51 4 72 48 8 Regional varies 1 Libr. 59 with size