Good news is starting to be increasingly mixed among the bad for Britain’s 4,000 free public libraries. Book borrowing fell by a further 5% last year, maintaining a disturbing 20-year trend, official figures showed yesterday.
But for the first time in their long decline there was hard evidence that libraries are winning back popularity with the public. An extra 4% of people walked through their doors in 2003-04, giving them a total of 337 million visits.
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