The bar charts illustrate the figure for people utilizing public libraries and show the proportion of their main reasons to visit in Britain from 1991 to 2000.
Overall, the public libraries in Britain recorded an unchanged number of visitors in the two separated years: 1991 and 2000. In addition, the percentage of people using public libraries to borrow or return books, to read newspaper or magazine, and to study decreased throughout, causing by an introduction of a new purpose and an increase in obtaining information.
The number of people visiting public libraries remained stable at 290 million in 1991 and in 2000. Looking firstly at reading newspaper or magazine, and borrowing or return videos, the percentage of people using it for these purposes grew. Specifically, 10% of residents obtained information in public libraries in 1991, which then went up to 20% by 2000. Moreover, in 1991, no one visited to borrow or return videos, while it was introduced and increased significantly to 18% at the end of the period.
In contrast, the share of people pay visit to public libraries to borrow or return books, to read newspaper or magazine, and to study recorded a downward trend. Despite felling down from 65% in 1991 to 55% in 2000, the percentage of residents borrowing or returning books still remained the highest over the period shown. An downward trajectory was recorded in the percentage of individuals reading newspaper or magazine, starting at 15% and finishing at 5%, while 10% of people studied in 1991, which subsequently decreased by 8 percentage points.