Answer to Library cake question
Sources
MLA
http://www.mla.gov.uk/about/corporate/~/media/Files/pdf/2010/corporate/MLA%20Final%20accts%2008-09.ashx
MLA total income £76,066,000
The MLA spent £4,418,000 on staff (see p.22) ie 0.5% of total spending
DCMS
UK government spending
DCMS spend £120,000,000 a year on libraries
Public Libraries
There are CIPFA statistics but you have to pay for them.
The old LISU Public Libraries materials fund and budget survey seem to have been discontinued: the last ones available are for 2007-9
159 of 208 public libraries responded (i.e. 74%)
Table 2 p.4 Total library spending for 2007-9 £882,092,000 (Figure 1: Works out at about £15-25 per capita)
Total UK expenditure on books 2007/8 75,965,000
Audiovisual 21,628,000
The old LISU Public Libraries materials fund and budget survey seem to have been discontinued:
The British Library
http://www.bl.uk/aboutus/stratpolprog/increasingvalue/measuring.pdf
£83m public funding p.a.
Each year the British Library generates value
around 4.4 times the level of its public funding
NHS
(2004-5)
217 out of 222 NHS hospitals covering 348 libraries
Table 2.1 p.4 Total expenditure 29,568,884
Total spent on staff 17,380,308
Total staff 1029.6 of whom 48% were professional
Total professional staff average cost per staff £20,749
Academic
LISU Library Statistics 2005
see also
Table 3.2 number of libraries p.125 170 institutions 851 libraries
Institutional expenditure Table 3.3 p128 500 million on Libraries 1257.5 on academic services, 16618 on all institutional spending
Sconul Annual Library statistics cost £80 hard copy
School Libraries
I am informed by the Schools Libraries Association that there are no up to date statistics on budgets for School Libraries although CILIP Schools Libraries group have done a survey due out at the end of June 2010
Prison Libraries
The Prison Library Association hold no up to date statistics on Prison Libraries [22/10/2010]
Conclusions
- Check out the websites and see if you agree with how these organisations are spending their money.
- Would it be possible to abolish the MLA and give the money it costs/spends straight to libraries? Do the MLA and DCMS duplicate eachother's roles to some extent? I must investigate their functions.
- Why, in an age of Open Government, are up to date statistics not freely available online any more?LISU ones were so handy and clear. Why should the public have to pay twice for statistics?
I would be very pleased to get some response to these questions as blog comments please.
Comments