22-4  Basic Statistics on Public Libraries (2010)
Item	Total		By Jurisdiction of Management
		Children's	Run by	Run by	Prefec-	County	Run by
		Libraries	Central	Provinces,	ture	(City)	Counties
			Govern-	Autonomous	Level	Level
			ment	Regions and
				Municipa-
				lities
Number of Institutions                            (unit)	2884	97	1	37	334	2512	1532
Number of  Employed Persons           (person)	53564	2121	1430	7545	14010	30579	15200
Total Collections                        (1000 copies)	617261	21592	28979	166018	161045	261219	108194
Books on Open Shelves          (1000 copies)	243555	13104	2062	37455	75416	128622	46244
Accumulative Number of Library Cards	20195175	1156989	1135622	3212172	6680291	9167090	2943793
Distributed                                          (units)
Total Number of Circulation (1000 person-times)	328233	18391	5330	35587	107610	179706	62870
Borrowing from Libraries	139342	7839	812	10857	45433	82240	33366
Number of Books and Periodicals Lent	263917	17038	1434	29320	88277	144886	52243
to Readers                                            (copy)
Service Activities Provided for Readers(time)	60093	3979	391	5110	17615	36977	15236
Number of Participants   (1000 person-times)	27403	956	201	4161	9692	13349	4871
Computer                                                  (set)	142772	5124	3079	16335	30430	92928	46760
Terminals in Electronic Media	83124	2967	224	4615	15464	62821	34374
Reading Rooms                                     (set)