The two charts give information about the survey of library users of three ages groups from 16 to 29 years in 2012.
Overall, the youngest generation used the library and got help from librarian more often than others, whereas the oldest responders were more likely to think that library is important. Meanwhile, the most popular purpose for going to library was looking for research in all ages group, while borrow newspapers was the lowest.
The library was visited more often by group aged 16 to 17 (72%), compared with 58% of 18-24-year-olds and 54% of 25-29-year-olds. Similarly, the youngest group got help from assistance more often (43%), while the percentage of others were significantly lower (27% of the group aged between 18 to 24 and 19% of the oldest group). However, the proportion of those who thought about library’s importance had opposite pattern: 54% of youngest group, 63% of respondents from aged 18 to 24 and 74% of the oldest group, the highest of all age groups.
Regarding reasons of use, visiting library for research was the most popular reason in all age groups: around 55% of the youngest group, compared with approximately 45% and 40% of the two older groups. Followed closely behind came borrowing books, with just under 50% of 16- to 17-year-old aged group, around 35% of middle group and approximately 32% of the oldest. In contrast, borrowing books was the least common purpose, although it was more popular in oldest group (around 25%), compared with about 22% of 18-24-year-olds and 20% of 16-17-year-olds.