However, the following, from figures published by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accounting, the Library and Information Statistics Unit and the Scottish Library and Information Council’s (SLIC) Public Library Expenditure Statistics, has been put together by SLIC: Category 1995-96 1999-2000 2001-02 a Net expenditure £88,540,000 £84,130,565 £88,820,942 b Expenditure per head of population £17.24 £16.85 £17.53 c Professional staff 682 641 629 Non-professional staff 2200 2193 2308 Manual staff 225 211 n/a d Expenditure on staff £47,823,366 £50,529,300 £54,120,315 e The number of books and other items issued 50,371,673 41,915,979 36,538,039 f Average issues per head of population 9.8 8.62 7.1 g Book funds £13,330,000 £10,612,490 £10,032,972 h Funds for audio and other non-book items £1,290,000 £1,643,032 £2,334,780 i Number of branch libraries 576 568 557 Number of mobile libraries 102 93 93 j Number of branches open for 45 hours or more per week 195 178 180 S2W-09790