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I'm always struck by just how many people use libraries in the UK. It's a
mind-bogglingly huge amount.
When we hear about the figures they're always couched in terms of
reductions - CIPFA tells us about the continuing decline, noting that UK
visits to public libraries in 2013-14 fell to 282 million, from 288 million
the previous year. I'm not surprised it fell - we lost 49 branches and
1,000 full-time-equivalent staff in the same period.
But why do we never take the figures in isolation? 282 million visits!
That's MASSIVE. And then I started wondering how that compared with other
things we visit in the UK. I came up with a list of as many as I could
think of, and guess what? We visit libraries more than we visit ANYTHING
else. In fact, we visit libraries twice as often as we visit football
matches, theatres, A&E and the Church combined.
I mean come on!Tweet
