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Jan 18, 2024 · Historically, the government has relied on CIPFA (the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy) to collect data on the number of libraries, the number of book loans and how many ...
Jul 3, 2024 · The United Kingdom is home to over 4.1 thousand public libraries and 950 academic libraries, including the British Library, one of the largest in the world with collection holdings exceeding...
Aug 16, 2018 · This data, collected by the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accounting (CIPFA), is the primary source of information regarding long-term trends for libraries across the United Kingdom...
Jul 20, 2022 · CIPFA published the provisional annual library statistics for the period April 2020 to March 2021 in February 2022.
- I was delighted to be appointed as Minister for Arts on 30 September 2021, especially as this responsibility includes public libraries. Having spen...
- This report is on the exercise of the Department’s statutory functions under the 1964 Act. It covers the period April 2021 to March 2022. It aligns...
- The DCMS Libraries team supports the Secretary of State by assisting her in delivering the statutory duty under the Public Libraries and Museums Ac...
- New Years and Queen’s Birthday Honours list.Congratulations to the following library sector people on being awarded Honours during this report year...
- New and refurbished librariesLocal authorities in England continued to invest in their library services. There are a number of examples of councils...
- 7.1 Library sector partnersOrganisations with which DCMS engage regularly and that undertake activities to support the public libraries sector incl...
This publication includes a detailed analysis of public libraries: revenue, expenditure and income; staffing levels; service points open to the public (including the number of people with access to online information); book stock and audio visual and electronic stock; annual issues; and inter-library loans, requests, enquiries and visits.
Apr 11, 2017 · More than a third of people (37%) in England who read only one book a year now say that they use a public library. Again, 40% (+5 percentage points from 2011) of people who only read one book...
Libraries have an extensive history; one has recently been uncovered in Cologne, Germany and is thought to date back to the second century AD and may have contained up to 20,000 scrolls. It is described as a public library in the marketplace or forum, ie the public space, in the city centre.
