Pilots
carried out into remote e-lending from
libraries have found that e-books accounted for less than 5 % of
library loans, with footfall to
libraries and bookshops likely to drop as digital borrowers are less likely to visit
branches.
Among the stranger requests for an image from the collection, dated August 24, 1920, and on view at an anniversary exhibition for the picture collection at the public
library's main
branch, was for pictures of dolls being
carried into France, on a donkey, by an Italian, in the 18th century.