Sweden

• Public library statistics. Sweden. Visits 07-10.

Resources

• Statistics Sweden. Folkbiblioteksstatistik
• Kulturrådet/Arts Council. Statistik om bibliotek.
• Kulturrådet/Arts Council.  Kulturen i siffror. Nya kulturvanor. Svenska kulturvanor i et 30-årsperspektiv 1976-2006. PDF. – 142 pp.

• The Swedish Library Association (Svensk biblioteksforening)
  • provides an excellent set of resource links for Swedish library statistics (but the links to the Arts Council – Kulturrådet – did not work last I checked)
  • has published (2009) a detailed – but mainly descriptive – report (in Swedish) on the practical organization of library statistics in Sweden and a number of other countries (Danmark, Norge, Finland, Great Britain and the US): PDF version
• The Swedish National Library publishes multi-annual statistics on academic and research libraries
• Höglund, L & Wahlström, E. Bibliotek och läsande mellan digitala och fysiska media i Sören Holmberg, Lennart Weibull & Henrik Oscarsson (red) Lycksalighetens ö. Göteborg: SOM-institutet, Göteborgs universitet, 2011.