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March 17, 2008

Libraries of Castilla-La Mancha. Statistics 2006

The Department of Culture of Castilla-La Mancha has updated statistical data on its Network of Public Libraries. Since 1997 2005 data are disseminated from a specific server, which can be found in the statistical yearbook, the most significant data directory, public libraries, as well as data Overall from which one can hear the evolution of English-reading public Mancha. In summary, the data for 2006, the last published, yield a figure of 532 service outlets, of which 5 are state public libraries, 8 bibliobuses and the remaining 519 are for municipal libraries. The target population is 99%, providing a service station for every 3,632 inhabitants. With regard to infrastructure, the network has a post reading for every 75 inhabitants, while he was still a high percentage of the available facilities reduced, as the 42.3% have a smaller space of 100 m2. The degree of automation continues to grow, increased from 71.4% in 2003 to 85.9% in 2006. The same occurs with the number of libraries that have Internet connectivity, which has risen from 67.1% in 2003 to 88.7% in 2006. The data collections indicate that there are documents 2.67 per capita, having purchased in 2006 0.21 papers per capita spent on acquisitions and 2.19 euros per inhabitant. The number of loans per capita was 2.23 and 3.26 visits. In the network of public libraries in this community working 1,010 people, of whom 801 are library staff. Each library has an average of 1.9 librarians. The data developed, the comparative and other information of interest can be seen on estadisticasdebibliotecas.jccm.es.

---> Automatically translated text by Google Translate. Version without links. See the original post in Spanish in Biblioblog.

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