Barbados Sees Decrease In Library Membership

News Out Of Barbados, where Only one-fifth of this country’s population are members of the National Library Service. Furthermore, over the last three years, membership at that department has declined by over 5 000 persons.
These statistics were revealed to the Barbados Advocate by library officials, who noted that as of June 2003, membership was 55 595, down from 61 107 in December 2001. These figures account for 28 713 adults and 26 882 children, and suggests that Barbadians do not utilise our national libraries as much as they should, according to one source.