Just for completeness to add to my post the other day, Wembley Library is still growing and its visit numbers can be seen in the graph above. The final column is 787% above the first (1,550,651 compared to 174,795 back in 2011). That is extraordinary growth for Wembley Library. Even more amazing is the fact that Wembley Library's visits last year amount to more visits than the whole of Brent Library service had in 2011/12 (including all twelve of the then libraries).
I suspect some of the litigants against the Library Transformation will still be claiming that the whole process has been unsuccessful.
UPDATE
To answer Martin's comment below, as with all Brent libraries the visit numbers do indeed record each time someone passes the threshold for any reason. This was also true of the former Brent Town Hall library which was a route into the Town Hall and where the toilets were external to the Library so the comparison is direct. This is therefore just another version of the fire drill argument.
There really is no way that visit numbers growing by almost 800% can be explained away. The library borrowing figures broken down by library are given by Brent Council here.
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I know I have pointed this out before but Wembley Library also count Civic Centre staff and visitors walking through the library as a shortcut from Olympic Way to the Civic Centre, returning by that route, with additional return trips by staff at lunchtime. I see the library being well used by students but fewer people browsing the books. I am a regular visitor to the library and Civic Centre and have seen the process. Do you have access to the borrowing figures fro the library to supplement the visitor figures?
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