I have often posted on Brent libraries performance, where usage and book loans seem to have been decoupled. Visits have gone up tremendously, and book loans have also gone up but to a lesser degree. A Cambridge academic has noticed this as well with the national figures. She mentions Brent as an improved service on page 21.
The full rather useful report is available here.
The conclusions are not surprising, although the flawed nature of the statistics is interesting and certainly backs the suggestion that DCMS really does not carry out its monitoring duty properly.
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