National digit. openb. bibl.; usage, accounts and licenses 2015-2019

The table contains figures on the usage, accounts and licenses of the national digital public library. The Royal Library (KB) provides this service to members of all public local libraries in the Netherlands and the online library. First of all, the table describes the extent to which the various digital products offered by the national digital public library have been used through the registered accounts. Secondly, from the year 2015 onwards, the number of accounts at the national digital public library can be seen. This number is, apart from the age of the user, also specified by the type of membership: on the one hand, membership in the local library, on the other hand, that of the digital library. The table also shows how many active and inactive accounts there are and how many new accounts have been added and how many have expired. Finally, the table provides insight into the different types of licenses for digital products available to the national digital public library. Most of these relate to e-books, but also licenses that allow access to other digital products (such as courses and audiobooks) are included in the table. These figures are specified as much as possible by target group and genre. As of 2016, information on courses has been included in the ‘Usage’ section for the first time, with the ‘accounts’ section for the first time distinguishing between different types of membership in the digital library as of 2016. In addition, both active and inactive accounts have been broken down by age of users since 2016. In 2017, figures relating to new and expired accounts were recorded for the first time. In the ‘licenses’ section, figures relating to the audiobooks and courses were added for the first time in 2016. As of 2017, these figures have been further disaggregated: the licenses for the courses are specified by age, the licenses for the audio books are broken down by both age and genre. The latter also applies to the licenses for the Holiday Bieb. As of 2019, the offer of courses through the digital library has been discontinued. Since then, no figures have been available on the use, accounts and licenses related to the course offer. There are also no more data available on the new and expired digital only memberships. In 2020, a new registration system was put into operation by the KB, which in particular registers the account data in a different way than the previous system. A digital account can also be used since 2020 for both borrowing e-books and borrowing audiobooks (previously separate accounts were needed). In addition, new applications (such as ThuisBieb) were used to offer the digital products in 2020. Due to these changes, the figures on accounts are not comparable to the previous series on StatLine. For this reason, the StatLine table in 2021 was not extended to include the preliminary figures for 2020. However, an additional table containing data on the National Digital Public Library has been placed on the CBS website. For the years 2015-2020, it contains a selection of variables from the StatLine table (see the link at the bottom of the document). Data available from: 2015-2019. Status of the figures: The figures for 2019 have provisional status. The other figures have been definitively established. Changes as of 28 July 2022: The table has been discontinued. When will the new figures come? The table has been discontinued and moved to the archive. No new figures in the form of a StatLine table will be available.