Facts and Figures 2021

Media holdings (including digital media) | 36,794,000 |
Total holdings (volumes) | 11,119,000 |
Addition to collection (number of volumes) | 117,000 |
Current periodicals (print and electronic) | 53,700 |
Manuscripts | 143,000 |
Incunabula | 21,000 |
Historical prints (1501 – 1800) | 920,000 |
Artists' books | 22,500 |
Image Archive | 19,240,000 |
Data volume of digitized objects (terabyte) | 1,150 |
Digitized titles | 2,927,000 |
Annual downloads of digitized titles | 805,000 |
Restorations of the patrimony | 225 |
Total expenditure (Euro) | 57.955.000 |
Expenditure for media acquisition (Euro) | 11.619.000 |
Thereof third-party funds for media acquisition (Euro) | 2.390.000 |
Acquisition of third-party funds for one-year and multi-year projects (Euro) | 8.070.000 |
Current third-party-funded projects | 46 |
Full-time equivalents (staff) | 540 |
Members of staff (incl. project staff) | 787 |
Total women's quota in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek | 56% |
Women's quota in executive positions | 36% |
Active users | 67,900 |
Loan orders | 765,000 |
Document delivery orders | 155,000 |
Hours of opening per week | 84 |
Reader desks | 419 |
Visits to reading rooms | 135,000 |
Information inquiries | 96,900 |
Accesses to online catalogue | 8,128,000 |
Exhibitions, events | 23 |
User trainings, guided library tours | 117 |