Grevillea parallelinervis

Facts & Figures

Jan 2011

Contacting us:

Australian National Botanic Gardens

ANBG Postal Address:

GPO Box 1777 CANBERRA, ACT, 2601 AUSTRALIA

ANBG Street Address:

Clunies Ross Street, ACTON, ACT, AUSTRALIA

ANBG Telephone: (02) 6250-9450
ANBG Facsimilie: (02) 6250-9599
ANBG Email: anbg-info@anbg.gov.au
or:   givenname.surname@environment.gov.au

Friends of the ANBG: (02) 6250-9548
Café | Hudsons in the Gardens: (02) 6248-9680 Email: hudsonscatering@bigpond.com
Shop | The Botanical Bookshop: (02) 6257-3302 Email: sales@botanicalbookshop.com.au

ANBG staff telephone list

ANBG Website: http://www.anbg.gov.au/anbg/

Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research
Australian National Herbarium

CPBR Postal Address:

GPO Box 1600 CANBERRA, ACT, 2601 AUSTRALIA

CPBR Telephone: (02) 6246-5108
CPBR Facsimilie: (02) 6246-5249

CPBR staff telephone list

CPBR Email: cpbr-info@anbg.gov.au
CPBR Website: http://www.cpbr.gov.au/cpbr/

ANBG Mission

Inspiring, informing and connecting people with the Australian flora

ANBG Opening Hours

• Gardens: 8.30am – 5.00pm daily (extended to 6 pm weekdays and 8 pm weekends in January; closed 25 December)
• Public Glasshouse – 9.00am to 4.00pm daily (closed 25 December)
• Visitor Centre – 9.00am – 4.30pm daily (closed 25 December)
• Bookshop – 9.30am – 4.30pm daily (closed 25 December)
• Café: 8.30am – 4.30pm daily (closed 25 & 26 December & 1 January)

ANBG General Description

Total area	90ha
Developed Area	40ha
Latitude	35 ° 17' South
Longitude	149 ° 7' East
Altitude	571-677 metres
Rainfall	664 mm (details since 1968) (2005 info)
First planting	1949
Officially opened	20 Oct 1970

Executive Staff

Executive Director ANBG: Judy West		Director CANBR: Andrew Young
General Manager: Peter Byron Deputy Director (Science and Information): Jim Croft
	Curator, Living Collection : David Taylor Manager, Development and Trades: Craig Cosgrove Manager, Communications & Visitor Services: Steve Speer Manager (Curator), Australian National Herbarium: Brendan Lepschi Manager, Botanical Databases: Greg Whitbread Manager, Botanical Information Group: Murray Fagg Manager, Administration : Francoise Zaalen-Arbaut

Statistics:

ANBG Visitors

2009-2010 financial year

• Visitor numbers to the Gardens for the 2009-2010 financial year were: 436,117  
• Visitor numbers to the Visitor Centre for the 2009-2010 financial year: 107,498

2010 calendar year

• Gardens: 462,645
• Visitor Centre: 108,138
• [month by month visitor statistics DEWAH access only]

Friends led walks

Friends' Guided Tours financial year 2006-2007

• Visitors participating in daily walks led by the Friends Volunteer Guides: 2,899
• Participants in booked tour groups led by the Friends Volunteer Guides: 278

ANBG Education Service Statistics

School groups for 2007-08 financial year:
Students for 2007-08 financial year: 13,208

Calendar Year	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
JANUARY	13 groups 1,333 participants	14 groups 3,307 participants	2 groups 3,034 participants	14 groups 5,224 participants	22 groups 5425 participants	9 groups 4320 participants	0 groups 0 participants
FEBRUARY	4 groups 144 participants	4 groups 91 participants	13 groups 598 participants	5 groups 129 participants	10 groups 198 participants	6 groups 167 participants	8 groups 240 participants
MARCH	22 groups 1,847 participants	22 groups 971 participants	15 groups 774 participants	23 groups 1,029 participants	19 groups 701 participants	17 groups 686 participants	14 groups 589 participants
APRIL	12 groups 857 participants	14 groups 717 participants	7 groups 381 participants	22 groups 930 participants	21 groups 677 participants	6 groups 257 participants	16 groups 755 participants
MAY	26 groups 1,054 participants	55 groups 2,933 participants	29 groups 1,358 participants	34 groups 2,142 participants	32 groups 1320 participants	28 groups 1312 participants	17 groups 958 participants
JUNE	21 groups 1,000 participants	32 groups 1,495 participants	23 groups 1,130 participants	18 groups 1,037 participants	17 groups 940 participants	24 groups 1122 participants	39 groups 1286 participants
JULY	8 groups 334 participants	3 groups 71 participants	25 groups 1,223 participants	17 groups 821 participants	19 groups 603 participants	6 groups 273 participants	13 groups 460 participants
AUGUST	23 groups 1,042 participants	34 groups 2,018 participants	23 groups 736 participants	33 groups 1,641 participants	30 groups 1272 participants	40 groups 1811 participants	31 groups 1130 participants
SEPTEMBER	21 groups 1,190 participants	46 groups 1,929 participants	26 groups 1,118 participants	45 groups 1,958 participants	54 groups 2478 participants	46 groups 2275 participants	26 groups 956 participants
OCTOBER	26 groups 834 participants	25 groups 1,136 participants	27 groups 1,095 participants	31 groups 1,357 participants	35 groups 1254 participants	26 groups 1186 participants	34 groups 1345 participants
NOVEMBER	28 Groups 1221 Participants	38 groups 1,988 participants	46 groups 2,973 participants	38 groups 2,401 participants	55 groups 2428 participants	44 groups 1956 participants	146 groups 2064 participants
DECEMBER	7 Groups 363 Participants	17 groups 778 participants	12 groups 569 participants	11 groups 587 participants	23 groups 1059 participants	20 groups 979 participants	25 groups 1236 participants
TOTAL GROUPS PARTICIPANTS	211 groups 11,189 participants	312 groups 17,614 participants	248 groups 14,989 participants	291 groups 14,267 participants	337 groups 18355 participants	264 groups 12044 participants	269 groups 11919 participants

ANBG Living Collections (July 2010*)

	Number of taxa	Number of specimens
Total	6,077*	80,441*
Open ground (plantings)	5,096	67,033
Controlled Environment Glasshouses, poly-house, etc	1,767	5,774
Under propagation (trays / pots)	627	4,297
Seed collections	2,964	-

Annual plantings

Annual Year	plants planted
2002-03	8,950
2003-04	9,187
2004-05	12,108
2005-06	15,110
2006-07	15,478
2007-08	6,355
2008-09	2,755
2009-10	4,000

Australian National Herbarium (June 2011)

CANB = Australian National Herbarium in Canberra

GROUP	Total no. Specimens	*Total no. specimens databased	Percent databased (%)	Total no. Types
Dicots	640,422	473,207	73.9	5,450
Monocots	162,690	145,414	89.4	1,427
Gymnosperms	4,232	4,193	99.1	33
Pteridophytes	24,418	23,219	95.1	121
Mosses	118,228	61,339	51.9	172
Hepatics	30,552	22,646	74.1	96
Hornworts	582	582	100.0	2
Lichens	100,292	84,130	83.9	967
Fungi	12,232	12,232	100.0	91
Slime Moulds	176	176	100.0	0
*Algae (incl. Lucus colln. c. 5,468 )	7,433	1,965	26.4	1
TOTAL	1,101,257	829,103	75.3	8,360

* Lucus Collection is on long term loan at NSW and is being databased by NSW, all specimens at CANB databased

Collection management Jul 2010 - Jun 2011

	Mounting - cryptogam:	4,893
	Mounting - vascular:	12,231
	Mounting - Total:	17,124
	New Accessions - v & c :	16, 745
	Databasing additions:	18,330
	Total specimens databased :	829,103

Herbarium Loans & Exchange transactions 2010– 2011

Jul 2010-Jun 2011	No. of despatches	No. of items
Outloans sent	34	2,612
Outloans returned	88	4,254
Inloans received	12	398
Inloans returned	98	6,932
Inloans transferred	2	18
Exchange sent	29	1,193
Exchange received	88	5,936
TOTAL	351	21,343

Plant identifications for the public via the ANBG Visitor Centre

Identified by Herbarium staff:   2006 = 156;   2007 = 186;   Jan-June 2008 = 87

Plant Names (end of June 2009)

Australian Plant Name Index (APNI):

Total no. plant name reference records: 207,798
No. created in 2008-09: 18,866

Australian Plant Census (APC)

Total no. synonymy & reference records: 43,342
No. created in 2008-09: 8,439

Photograph Collection (end of June 2011)

Total number of 35mm slides: 51,039

Total Images in collection 30 June 2011: ( 61,132 plant + 15,317 other) = 76,449

Images added to collection 2010-2011: 13,366

Plant portraits and whole plant profiles (ie total slides and digital records in the photo database)	61,132
Number of distinct plant taxa in collection	13,387
Non-plant slides/digital images	15,317
Digital images on web (photo and kwikpik)	25,261
Slides contributed to collection 2010-11	579
Slides digitized 2010-2011	1,459
Digital images added 2010-2011(born-digital)	12,704
Images donated under tax incentives scheme 2009-2010	0
Images donated (not tax incentives scheme)	0
Slides borrowed 2010-11	0
Images used under licence 2010-2011	1470
Number of licences issued for 2010-2011	55

Web site use (January 2011)

www.anbg.gov.au (includes ANBG and CANBR)
= www.cpbr.gov.au

ANBG web server and IBIS Database stats for year:
24 million hits deliver nearly a Terabyte of data in 18 million pages to 2.6 million client networks.
1.2 million of these requests are direct, database queries.

Public email Enquiries or Requests answered per month in 2011 (excluding schools)
April = 37; May = 55; June = 43

Web figures at January 2011 (source = server log)

Number of HTML web pages in website (June 2011)	48,202
Number of images (mostly JPEGs) on site	65,899
Total number of objects accessable from home page	149,239
HTML pages successfully accessed in June 2011	1,032,257
Average HTML pages successfully accessed per day, June 2011	33,805
Web requests made to IBIS database per day in June 2011	8,476
Photographs accessed from database each day in June 2011	21,893
Average data transferred per day in June 2011	1.74 gigabytes

ANBG Library (2004/2005)

Totals
Number of book titles: 13,356
Number of serial titles: 650
Maps: 5000
Audio-visual titles: 236
Rare book collection: 350
Archive collection: 1256

Actions in 2004/2005
Items added to collection: 1376
Loans: 3510
Reference enquiries: 8

ANBG Finance (2005/2006)

• Total Operations Budget (salaries, purchasing, computers, depreciation etc.): $8,452,000
• Salaries/staffing: $4,403,000
• Capital Works: $1,125,000 (mostly our new $4m Nursery built over 2 financial years)
• Earned from licensees (Cafe and Bookshop), Parking fees, room and venue hire, weddings etc: $248,000

ANBG Staffing levels (May 2006)

• Herbarium, Orchid Res, Data Management, Plant Records, Photographs and website: 19.9
• Horticulture and Living Collections Management (includes Seedbank): 23.8
• Public Programs and Education: 9.8 (includes contract teacher)
• Infrastructure and Administration: 7.2 (includes Director)

Total Staff Allocation: 60.7

 

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