The two pie charts illustrate how the proportions of Britain’s public libraries visitation’s main reasons varied in two separate years, 1991 and 2000.
Overall, the number of visitors going to public libraries maintained a consistent level of 290 million in both years. Additionally, the shares of studying, reading newspapers or magazines, and borrowing or returning books declined to varying extents throughout the given timeframe, while obtaining information experienced a moderate growth in its firgure. Moreover, there was a new purpose to visit libraries in 2000. Notably, the rate of borrowing or returning books by far the most popular reason to use public libraries in the examined interval.
The accounts of studying, reading newspapers or magazines, and borrowing or returning books underwent a downward trajectory. In 1991, the share of borrowing or returning books contributed 65% of the total, before exhibiting a downturn to 55% in 2000. Notwithstanding this trend, this reason held the leading proportion in reason for using public libraries throughout the surveyd period. Likewise, the rates of reading newspapers or magazines, and studying eperienced a moderate drop. They began at 15% and 10% in 1991, then shrinking to 5% and 2% in the total in 2000, respectively.
Conversely, the share of obtaining information exhibited a upward trajectory, and a new reason for using librabries occured. In 1991, the purpose of obtaining information accounted for 10% of the total, before experiencing a two-fold increase to 20% in 2000. Thereafter, the category of borrowing or returning videos appeared in 2000 and contributed for 18% of the total, lagging behind the groups of borrowing or returning books and obtaining information.