Facts and Figures 2019

Media holdings (including e-media) | 33,921,000 |
Total holdings (volumes) | 10,885,000 |
Addition to collection (number of volumes) | 123,000 |
Current periodicals (print and electronic) | 54,400 |
Manuscripts | 140,000 |
Incunabula | 21,000 |
Historical prints (1501 – 1800) | 920,000 |
Artists' books | 22,100 |
Data volume of digitized objects (terabyte) | 957 |
Digitized titles | 2,509,000 |
Annual downloads of digitized titles | 2.260,000 |
Restorations of the patrimony | 259 |
Total expenditure (Euro) | 59.036.000 |
Expenditure for media acquisition (Euro) | 13.714.000 |
Thereof third-party funds for media acquisition (Euro) | 2.609.000 |
Acquisition of third-party funds for one-year and multi-year projects (Euro) | 3.478.000 |
Current third-party-funded projects | 34 |
Full-time equivalents (staff) | 513 |
Members of staff (incl. project staff) | 808 |
Active users | 78,600 |
Loan orders | 1,173,000 |
Document delivery orders | 193,500 |
Hours of opening per week | 112 |
Reader desks | 1,000 |
Visits to reading rooms | 991,000 |
Information inquiries | 116,300 |
Accesses to online catalogue | 8,178,000 |
Exhibitions, events | 32 |
User trainings, guided library tours | 433 |