...Jonas Söderholm Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate tool lending library patrons’ perception of their tool borrowing, in order to explore the role of a public lending service in the context of their lives. It addresses the research question, why do patrons borrow tools from...

... Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2004 Public libraries Books Borrowing Financing United Kingdom In the preceding paper, Grindlay and Morris (2004) reviewed the literature on the decline in adult book lending in UK public libraries to identify its possible causes and the mechanisms...

... books and this, combined with the increase in consumer book purchasing, is probably the underlying cause of the decline in public library book lending. Most of the decrease in adult book issues has been due to a reduction in adult fiction borrowing (Sumsion, 1996 ; National Book Committee, 1997...

...John Sumsion; Margaret Hawkins; Anne Morris In the context of statistical research into the economic value of public library services, a model was developed to demonstrate the economic benefit when books are borrowed rather than bought. The model is based on the number of book reads rather than...