Scientific libraries: Formal and material development in 2021

The German Library Statistics (DBS) is the national statistics of the German library system and contains statistical key figures. It includes public libraries, scientific libraries, as well as specialized scientific libraries. More information can be found at [DBS](https://www.bibliotheksstatistik.de/). This dataset contains the following information on scientific libraries in Bavaria in 2021: Formal development: indexing of the newcomer (number of titles), formal indexing: Development of the newcomer (number of titles), including: Self-catalogues, formal indexing: Retro-catalogue (number of titles), subject index: Verbally indexed titles, subject index: Systematically developed titles Note: Due to the pandemic, the data for the reporting years 2020/2021/2022 are only comparable to a limited extent with those of previous years!