Facts and Figures 2024

 

Media holdings (including digital media)39,417,000
Total holdings (volumes)11,446,000
Addition to collection (number of volumes)105,800
Current periodicals (print and electronic)54,000
Manuscripts148,000
Incunabula21,000
Historical prints  (1501 – 1800)920,000
Artists' books23,200
Image Archive (incl. stern Photo Archive19,805,000
Restorations of the patrimony249
  
Data volume of digitized objects (terabyte)1,100
Digitized objects4,642,000
Digitized images453,718,000
Downloads of digitized offers (images) of the MDZ367,954,000
  
Total expenditure (Euro)64.615.000
Expenditure for media acquisition (Euro)10.586.633
Thereof third-party funds for media acquisition (Euro)2.413.000
Acquisition of third-party funds for one-year and multi-year projects (Euro)5.996.000
Current third-party-funded projects29
  
Active users63,780
Document delivery orders124,000
Hours of opening per week112
Reader desks848
Visitors to the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek894,000
Information inquiries82,800
Website page views446,413,157
Accesses to online catalogue6,496,000
Exhibitions, events26
User trainings, guided library tours228
  
Full-time equivalents (staff)644
Members of staff (incl. project staff)913
Total proportion of women in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek and the regional State Libraries57%
Proportion of women in executive positions33%
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