The pie charts illustrate the proportion of people who went to a public library and why they reached there in Britain in 1991 and 2000 in terms of the purpose of their visit.
Overall, there was a significant decrease in the percentage of British residents arriving who went to a library to borrow and return books, read newspapers or magazines and to study, while the opposite was true for the remaining groups. It is also evident that libraries in Britain saw an increase in the figure for obtaining information during the period
Commencing with the main reasons with bigger data, the people coming to the library to borrow/return books started at the highest level of 65% in 1991, followed by a significant drop to 55% in the next century. An opposite change can be observed in the obtained information category, which accounted for 10% as the third-place reason, then surged by twofold to 20% in 2000, thereby assuming the second position.
Moving to the other purposes with smaller statistics, the percentage of individuals coming to these public libraries for studying and reading newspaper or magazine plummeted by precisely 5 times from 10% to 2% (was always the least favorable ground in 2 years) and by 3 times from the second most preferred reason in 1991 (15%) to 5% respectively throughout the surveyed years. There were no library users who borrowed or returned videos in 1991, but in 2002, it rose noticeably to 18%, which ranked third among the main activities.