Provincial and City Public Library in Rzeszow

                                                                LIBRARY BY NUMBERS
                                                                / data as of 31.12.2008 /

Provincial and Municipal Library in Rzeszow has the following lending and information divisions:

• departments and sections: Main Library, Music Library, Children and Teenagers Branch, Reference Desk, Main Reading Room, Current Periodicals Reading Room, Computer Information Section, Department of Community Life Records;
• 16 municipal branches;
• 5 library points.

Collections in 2008  /data as of 31.12.2008 /:

619.376 /books, bound periodicals and special collections/
including:

• books: 567.819 vol.
• bound periodicals: 19.025 vol.   
• special collections: 32.532vol.
  • Main Reading Room owns: 120.930 vol. /books/
  • Main Library: 74.220 vol. /books/
  • Children and Teenagers Branch, Music Library, municipal branches: 355.397 vol. /books/
  • Reserves storage: 17.272 vol. /books/       

Book purchases in 2008: 19.320 volumes

Readers in 2008:

• 36.604 persons
• Loans in 2008: 652.805 volumes
• Average loan per reader: 17.8

Reading rooms in 2008:

• number of seats in reading rooms: 284
• User visits to the reading rooms in 2008: 68.264 
• On-site loans of collections in 2008: 194.511 volumes

Library events /meetings with authors, lectures, competitions, lessons at the library and other/ in 2008:

• amount of events: 835
• amount of participants: 20.405.

Computer stations for users in 2008: 77
including stations with Internet access for users: 55

Internet users in Rzeszow's public libraries in 2008. – 26.400 persons

Number of documents digitalized  by the Library: 1509 /data as of 28.12.2009/