The two pie charts illustrate the proportion of the main reasons why people in Britain visit public libraries in 1991 and 2000.
Overall, it is evident that the number of libraries visits remained unchanged over the years. In addition, people going to the libraries for borrowing books and studying purposes decreased while the others increased.
In 1991, borrowing and returning books was the majority reasons people went to the libraries, as it represented 65%. This was significantly higher than obtaining information purposes, at 10%. After 9 years, the former dropped to 55% whereas the latter doubled to 20%. One notable point is that no one went to the public libraries to take and return book in 1991, but then, this figure skyrocketed to 18% in 2000.
In 1991, 10% of libraries visitors were there to study before this figure decreased considerably to only 2% in 2000, made up the minority of the reasons. Meanwhile, there was a significant increase in the proportion of people read newspaper and magazines at the libraries, from 10% in 1991 to 15% in 2000. In addition, public libraries welcomed 290 million visits both in 1991 and 2000.