Facts and Figures 2023

 

Media holdings (including digital media)38,464,000
Total holdings (volumes)11,340,000
Addition to collection (number of volumes)98,000
Current periodicals (print and electronic)53,200
Manuscripts147,000
Incunabula20,900
Historical prints  (1501 – 1800)920,000
Artists' books22,900
Image Archive (incl. stern Photo Archive19,390,000
Restorations of the patrimony192
  
Data volume of digitized objects (terabyte)1,000
Digitized objects4,013,000
Digitized images429,949,000
Downloads of digitized offers (images) of the MDZ272,588,000
  
Total expenditure (Euro)63.938.000
Expenditure for media acquisition (Euro)12.295.000
Thereof third-party funds for media acquisition (Euro)4.838.000
Acquisition of third-party funds for one-year and multi-year projects (Euro)1.862.000
Current third-party-funded projects41
  
Active users68,600
Document delivery orders117,000
Hours of opening per week112
Reader desks845
Visitors to the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek828,000
Information inquiries93,700
Website page views508,390,000
Accesses to online catalogue7,116,000
Exhibitions, events35
User trainings, guided library tours268
  
Full-time equivalents (staff)641
Members of staff (incl. project staff)896
Total proportion of women in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and the regional State Libraries57%
Proportion of women in executive positions36%
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