British libraries miss 25 million books

london - The public libraries in Britain and Northern Ireland are 25 million books lost. On the shelves are currently 52.3 million books and there are inexplicably drove 25 million fewer than in the previous census in 1996.

The librarians in the UK are surprised and worried. The Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals, in an open letter to Minister Philip Hammond of Finance asked for money to protect the written own.

Suffolk manual count was held recently which was 10 000 books lower than the state database of the libraries in the English county. The savings most libraries can no longer perform manual counts. Since 2010, 8,000 librarians in England and Wales, a quarter of the total, layoffs. Over the past decade are also closed hundreds of libraries.

In The Netherlands the library after years of decline again on the rise, according to recent figures from Statistics Netherlands. Where older people drop out, are just more and more young members.