Presentation given by John Holden of think tank Demos at the CILIPS Autumn Gathering at the Carnegie Conference Centre (Dunfermline) on the 27th October 2010.

1. HOW CAN LIBRARIES BEST
DEMONSTRATE VALUE
AS COSTS COME UNDER
PRESSURE?
John
Holden

15. ‘Libraries are not about books’

16. ‘..the vast majority of our users
come to libraries to borrow
books’

17. ‘Library visits have remained
static over the last three years’

18. ‘Visits to public libraries in
Britain rose by six per cent’

19. ‘The number of people borrowing
books is down by 3.3 per cent to
12.5 million’

25. Intrinsic

26. Intrinsic
Instrumental

27. Intrinsic
InstitutionalInstrumental

34. Intrinsic
InstitutionalInstrumental

36. HOW CAN LIBRARIES BEST
DEMONSTRATE VALUE
AS COSTS COME UNDER
PRESSURE?
John
Holden