The pie chart and table illustrate the age distribution of members of the Little Chalfont Library and their genre preferences in 2016 , while the bar graph depicts how many loans the library made from 2007 to 2016.
Overall, most members were adults aged 18-64, and the most popular categories were adult and children’s fiction. Additionally, the total number of loans by the fiction. library generally increased over the period.
Regarding the pie chart, slightly more than half of the members were adults from 18-64 years old, while children accounted for around ane-fifth of the total. Meanwhile, young adults aged 13-17 made up 15% of the members, which was three percentage points higher than the share of those aged 65. As for the table, the most papular genres were children’s and adult fiction, each of which accounted for 38% of the total loans. Although the figure for adult non-fiction was significantly lower at 13%, it was still more than double that of children’s non-fiction. Materials for young adults and adult audio books constituted comparable shares of 2%, while children’s DVDs represented only 1% of the total loans.
Turning to the total number of loans, approximately 16,000 were made in 2007, after which the number rose gradually to roughly 22,000 by 2011. Subsequently, it decreased continuously to around 18,000 in 2013, although by 2016, that had recovered and reached approximately 23,000, which was the highest point during the given period.