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2022-23 Snapshot
Our People
- 341 staff (average full-time equivalent)
- Median age of staff is 47 years
- 54.1%% of ongoing staff have worked at the Library for over 5 years
- 29 registered volunteers
- 1,462 Friends of the National Library
Our Collections
Physical
- Total 273 shelf kilometres housing the collections
Digital
- Total 2.96 petabytes of digital material
- 18,716 new items acquired in digital format (excluding individual issues of magazines and journals, and individual files from archived websites )
Access and Usage
- 21.7 million visits to the National Library online
- 12.9 million visits to Trove
- 45,908 physical items delivered to users either in reading rooms or offsite via interlibrary loan or document supply
- 36,245 reference and information inquiries answered by Library staff
- 17 billion Australian and online resources available
- 27.1 million newspaper pages freely available online
- 466.6 million lines of text corrected
Social Media
Note: Social media reporting relies on a third-party algorithm tool, which may be adjusted from year to year.
- Facebook: 695,857 engagements
- Twitter: 40,473 engagements
- Instagram: 42,844 engagements
Locations
We operated from five buildings:
- the main Library building
- three offsite collection storage repositories
- an office in the Australian Embassy in Jakarta
We operated three reading rooms and two galleries in the main building:
- Main Reading Room (including Newspapers and Family History Area)
- Special Collections Reading Room (including the Petherick Reading Room)
- Asian Collections Reading Room
- Treasures Gallery
- Exhibition Gallery
Visitors
- 399,045 onsite visitors
- 266,686 offsite visitors (total visitation to third party exhibitions, which include one or more online exhibitions)
Our staff delivered onsite and offsite programs including:
- 67public events
- 260 volunteer-led tours
- 101 organised school programs
- 10 learning programs
There were:
- 184,097 reading room visitors
- 68,673 visitors to our exhibition galleries
- 14,182 visitors to events
- 4,356 school students
- 42 online events
- 78,505 online event attendees.