The Brent experience, in contrast, is shown here:
And the Brent experience on loans (NB the high base line) is here:
The improved performance in both visits and loans is attributable to seven day opening, the refurbishment of Kilburn Library (Pictures are available here), a new library at Willesden and a new library at Wembley. These all formed part of the Brent Libraries Transformation Project.
So just to repeat, over a period when national library visits declined by 14%, Brent's went up by 61%. In the same period, loans went down 25.1% nationally, but rose by 8% in Brent.
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