About Lyon Public Library

Figures 2018

I equipment I personnel I budget I acquisitions I footfall I users I loans I events | collections I IT services I

Equipment

 The Part-Dieu Library: 27,446 m2
 Community libraries: 15,885 m2
including services and rooms open to the public: 18,088 m2
 Document storage (book silo): 12,000 m2

Personnel

450 FTE including 8 state curators

Budget

Operation

Total expenditure: € 22,686 127
including personnel: € 19,580,993 (2017)
including acquisitions of documents and subscriptions: € 634,109

Total revenue: € 1,237,894
including own revenue: € 857,057
public subvention: € 325,480

Investment

Expenses: € 2,963,189
including acquisitions of documents: € 1,324,922
including library automation: € 640,807

Income subsidies: € 106,167

Current acquisitions

Documents purchased

Annual total: 81,339
including books: 63,208
including CDs and recorded texts: 7,103
including video: 10,810

Periodicals

Current subscriptions: 3,652
including online electronic resources: 29

Heritage acquisitions

Heritage documents: 21,141
Legal depository: 15,368

Footfall

Total admissions: 2,644,343
including at the Part-Dieu library: 911,826
including at the community libraries: 1,732,517
including visits to the website: 1,330,224
including visits to the Guichet du Savoir/ Influx: 1,861,741
including visits to Numelyo: 245,835

Users

125,410 registered users (including 89,071 Lyon residents - 17.6% of the population) including 90,071 borrowers.

Loans and provision of items

Total loans: 4,174,898
including books: 2,760,361
including periodicals: 244,144
including CDs: 264,148
including language methods: 8,932
including graphic documents: 3,734
including DVD: 842,927

Provisions from the silo: 63 329 docs. comm.

Cultural events

Total events 3,715 (excluding digital exhibitions and workshops)
participants: 87,114
5 exhibitions: 154,137 visits

Collections

All collections: 3,854,987 documents (estimate excluding periodicals and DL)

Access

direct: 878,439 documents
indirect: 2,976,548 documents kept in the Part-Dieu silo

Breakdown of collections

The Part-Dieu Library: 3,263,132 documents
Community libraries: 591,855 documents

including the heritage collections (2,660,000 documents) :

14,468 manuscripts
including 55 Merovingian and Carolingian manuscripts
including 510 mediaeval manuscripts (200 illuminated manuscripts)

1,519,510 books
including incunabula: 1,300
including 16th century: 20,000
including 17th century: 65,000
including 18th century: 115,000
including 19th century (up to 1920): 300,000

other documents
877,000 prints and photographs
114,047 vinyl discs (including 15,000 "78 rpm")

legal depository collections: approx. 500,000

periodicals kept (obsolete and current titles): 14,852

Services informatiques et numériques

• the computerised general catalogue: 1,539,087 bibliographical notes
• Numelyo
• the Guichet du Savoir (answers): 3,251
• L’Influx
• 4 1DTouch terminals
• 11 digital spaces
• IT workstations available to the public: 364 including 320 with internet access