Australian Bureau of Statistics
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HOLDINGS AND LOANS

In June 2004, public libraries in Australia held a total of 52.8 million books and other library materials such as video and audio tapes and discs. About 39 million items were available as lending stock, of which 34.3 million were books. Lending stock is drawn solely from local libraries, which in 2003-04 reported 176.2 million loans, 138.2 million of which were books. There were 10.1 million registered borrowers in that year.

10.6 Public library holdings - June 2004
	Local libraries	National and state libraries	All public libraries
	'000	'000	'000
Lending stock(a)	38 984.5	. .	38 984.5
Non-lending stock(a)	2 511.8	11 276.3	13 788.2
Total(a)	41 496.3	11 276.3	52 772.7
. . not applicable
(a) For 2003-04 estimates exclude heritage items.
ABS, Public Libraries, Australia, 2003-04 (cat. no. 8561.0).

The national and state archives which record their holdings in metres of shelf space reported having 629,100 metres of holdings at the end of June 2004, a decrease from 688,000 metres in June 2000.

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