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The National Library of Israel by the numbers
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The National Library has over 4 million volumes of books and 180,000 annual visitors.
Did you know…?
The National Library has over 4 million volumes of books and 180,000 annual visitors.
125
Years collecting the cultural treasures of Israel and the Jewish people
340
Employees
180,000
Annual visitors onsite
10,000,000
Unique annual visitors online
4,000,000
Books
22,000
Meters of shelves in the stacks
732
Books ordered by readers per day
12
Minutes from time of book order to delivery (down from one hour in 2010)
27,000
Reference questions answered each year
736
Percent growth of online reference questions between 2011 and 2018
1,000
Personal archives of leading Jewish and Israeli figures
2,500
Arabic letter manuscripts
10,000
Hebrew letter manuscripts, the greatest concentration in the world
78,200
Digitized Hebrew manuscripts in Ktiv: The International Collection of Digitized Hebrew Manuscripts (over 9 million images)
6,000
Ancient maps and 2,000 modern maps of Jerusalem and the Holy Land
35,000
Hours of digitized music and sound recordings of songs and prayers
2,000,000
Photographs in NLI's Pritzker Family National Photography Collection
3,000,000
Digitized pages of historic Jewish press, spanning two-and-a-half centuries, 365 titles, and 15 languages
106
Distinct titles of Arabic newspapers (171,239 scanned pages) in Jrayed, NLI's digital collection of historical Arabic Press
60,000,000
Pages of documentation in the Central Archives for the History of the Jewish People (CAHJP)
Image from home page: Alphabet Chart: classroom chart to assist in teaching students Hebrew and Italian. From the Valmadonna Trust Collection. Livorno, Italy, 1846.
