The chart illustrates the information about the borrowed books from the UK libraries, measuring in millions from 1995 to 2005. Overall, the figure for the books experienced a downward trend until the given period. The number of children’s books saw a significant decline over the period. Top Audio-visual materials experienced a silight decline. Noticeably, adult fiction books were the less favourite ones over the period.
Focusing on the higher figures first, in 1995, 1113 million children’s books were borrowed, considerably more than those top audio visual materials, at 330 million. This disparity experienced a reverse trend in 2000, as the figure for the top audio visual materials were 280 million and surpassed the children’s books. In the final year, despite there was a decline in the number of top audio visual material to 230 million they were the highest chosen among other types of books. Children’s books decreased markedly at 110 millions.
Adult non-fiction and adult fiction books followed smilar patterns, despite increasing from 107 millions to 113 millions in 2000 the number of adult non-fiction books dropped to 104 millions. On the other hand, Adult fiction books were stood at 98 millions in 1995, after which there was a considerable decline in the number of adult-fiction books, accounting for 60 millions in 2005
