Who doesn’t use public libraries? And why?
https://www.analibraryse.com/blog/who-doesnt-use-public-libraries-and-why
This “draws on data we have collected from communities and the excellent Libraries Building Communities (LBC) research produced by State Library of Victoria in 2005 (notably Report 3: Bridging the Gaps written by my former colleague Carol Oxley – http://www2.slv.vic.gov.au/about/information/publications/policies_reports/plu_lbc.html). The LBC research may now be 17 years old but many of the findings still stack up well against what we have found in recent times.”


Our surveys have found that there are five main factors which contribute to people not using public libraries – and get ready for some massive generalisations.


“Recognising that there are significant differences between communities depending on their socio-economic and age profile, and that multiple factors might lead to any individual being a library non-user, our data (averaging across several different surveys) suggests that the distribution of the population looks a bit like this.”

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