Date: August 25, 2010 1:13:23 PM BDT
Subject: Re: Libraries making the news again!
Managed to send this to Alan earlier and forgot to include the list!
Another aspect here is what proportion of visitors are unique. Visitor counters would count the same user every time they visited which could be several times a day every day the library was open. That wouldn't match up at all with the way the DCMS survey is conducted.
We've had a marked increase in visitors (between 7% and 15% 2009/10 against 2008/9) but our libraries also handle some other council services so the visitors may not be using the library for borrowing or studying purposes.
Our overall stock figure also increased very slightly (under 1%) so no reduction in the number of items to borrow.
Graham
Graham Dash, MCLIP, Library Services Manager (Systems & Development)
Environment & Leisure Group, Leisure & Libraries
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Sent: 25 August 2010 12:19
Subject: FW: Libraries making the news again!
Sadly on the radio 4 bit I listened to no-one argued against the rather stark figure that library visitors had dropped 25%. This is nearly true when you look at the drop in respondents to the survey of people saying that they are regular users of the library. But it is nowhere near true if you look at visitor counts in libraries (certainly does not match up with our figures). Nationally I think only the 2009 actuals are available and the drop is from 342,168,000 2005/06 to 324,991,000
2008/09 a drop of 5%. Or put in another light we are still getting over
5 visits for every single member of the UK population.
Alan
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Sent: 24 August 2010 16:36
Subject: Re: Libraries making the news again!
I have to say I found the item on BBC One TV this morning very
disappointing. The BBC introduced the item with a very negative slant.
"The number of people visiting their local library in the last year has
dropped to 50% of the population" - which other public service has 50%
of the population making use of its services? This is a footfall which
many services, both public and private, would die for. The person from
the Ideas Store unfortunately didn't argue the case for libraries very
well - there was nothing about libraries and literacy, children's
reading challenge during the summer to support the reading gap left by
school holidays, libraries and the provision of accurate and current
information, libraries changing people's lives through exposure to new
ideas etc etc.
Good to have this level of exposure though!
Philip Wark
Principal Librarian
Midlothian Council - Education and Children's Services
Library HQ
2 Clerk Street
Loanhead
Midlothian EH20 9DR
tel: 0131 271 3971
fax: 0131 440 4635
From: lis-pub-libs: UK Public Libraries
Sent: 24 August 2010 16:19
Subject: Libraries making the news again!
Libraries, threatened closures and the results of the recent DCMS Taking
Part survey were discussed on BBC ONE TV Breakfast, Radio 4 Today and
Radio 5 this morning. Furthermore some local BBC radio programmes have
later featured libraries.
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Frances Hendrix
Martin House Farm, Hilltop Lane, Whittle le Woods, Chorley, Lancs PR6
7QR, UK
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