Purposes

Information on the physical equipment and human resources of the different library categories, measurement of variations, and assessment of the financing for said activity.

Institutions that intervene

INE, Statistics institutes (Aragón, Cataluña, Illes Balears, Comunidad de Madrid, Comunidad Foral de Navarra), MCUL, MDEF, MINT.

General description (main variables)

Ownership, means of access, years functioning, opening hours, surface area, equipment, collection, personnel and ordinary expenses. Type of library. By complete listing.

Collective

Libraries

Frequency of data collection

Bienal

Breakdown

Provincial

Budgetary credits necessary for its finance in the four-year period 2009-2012  (in thousands euros)

486.80