Textbook collections held 6,1 million volumes. Every school library had an average of 372 borrowers, each of them borrowed 17 volumes. Every school library is operated by at least one librarian with a salary, though some of them are not working full-time. Elementary school libraries are mostly run by one of the teachers. Since 1994 every library employee who lacks professional education and occupies a post that requires the skills of a librarian, is obliged to pass a corresponding exam.
Professional education is a requirement for all school librarians.
School library programmes have not been very successful because the traditional teaching forms are still deeply rooted. The teachers do not feel the need to develop their own educational and didactic concepts for library work. They consider the library as a facility where students can be supplied with materials for studying purposes. Under such circumstances, the development of school libraries into information points not only lending materials but also providing information skills can develop very slowly. Computers are being actively used in school libraries.