The bar chart compares the quantity of things borrowed from UK public libraries between 1995 and 2005, measured in millions.
Overall, the number of all borrowed items from the libraries in the UK witnessed a downward trend throughout. In addition, top audio-visual materials were the most popular things borrowed by people.
Focusing on top top audio-visual materials and children’s books, people borrowed these items most. In 1995, almost all citizens borrowed over 1600 million multimedia materials for temporary use and then this figure fell to around a half and finished at roughly 500 million in 2005. A similar pattern can be seen in children’s books, which started at nearly 1400 million in 1995 and had a large disparity compared with remaining categories. After that, it decreased by half to around 300 million in the next 10 years.
Regarding adult non-fiction and adult fiction, these types had a minimal number of things borrowed. The number of adult non-fiction books taken out by UK residents remained stable for five years before declining to approximately 190 million at the end. This figure was twice as much as that of fiction books than the others, which fluctuated under a hundred million in a decade.