Public Libraries of Madrid. Active Loans. History

Information relating to active loans in the public libraries of the city of Madrid, that is, the copies borrowed. The information provided is based on a number of fixed dates. This data set is presented for statistical purposes or studies and research, not to give real-time information on loans. Monthly information is provided. The following considerations must be taken into account: from October 2014 to October 2017: data on active loans of libraries managed by the City of Madrid from December 2017 to the current month: data on active loans of the public libraries of the city of Madrid November 2017: not available due to the technical work of unifying the public library management system of Madrid in April and May 2020 no face-to-face loans have been recorded due to the interruption of service due to the state of alarm due to the COVID-19 health crisis. The first field of the active loan file corresponds to its barcode. With this code, you can obtain all the associated information in another data set that is the Catalogue of public libraries of the city of Madrid, also available on the portal. In the section of “ Associated documentation & you can find the <Active Loan File Structure” document, which contains the information needed to interpret this dataset. Auxiliary tables for encoding media, libraries, copies, readers, etc. are also included for proper decoding. Through the Visualisation Portal ‘Visualiza Madrid with Open Data’, the City of Madrid puts at your disposal a visualisation made with open data of Libraries. Access to the visualisation of Public Libraries of the city of Madrid. Loans made in the last year.