The TAKING PART 2011/12 QUARTER 3 STATISTICAL RELEASE, published by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport on 29 March 2012, reveals that 4.7 per cent of all English adults had visited an archive in person during the previous year, either in their own time, as part of voluntary work, or in connection with paid work or academic study.
Such onsite visits to archives have declined by over one-third since 2005/6. The trend for online visits, by contrast, is upwards. In 2011, 11.4 per cent of English adults had visited an archive or records office website in the past twelve months, a significant increase from 9.7 per cent in 2005/6.
Of those who had visited an archive or records office website, 61.6 per cent had done so to view digitized documents, one-third had searched a catalogue, and 19.4 per cent had completed a transaction. For more detail, see chapter 7 of the report, available at:
http://www.dcms.gov.uk/images/research/TakingPart_2011-12_Q3_StatisticalRelease.pdf
Dr Clive D Field, OBE
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