지난 10년간 영국 공공도서관의 도서 대출 43% 감소
(북셀러즈 2019년 12월 17일 보도)
(북셀러즈 2019년 12월 17일 보도)
Library loans down 43% in 10 years, new analysis shows
Latest figures from The Chartered Institute of Public Finance & Accountancy (CIPFA) show library loans are down 43% in the last decade in England, with libraries still in “a terrible state” as repeated schemes to turn around the service fail, campaigner Tim Coates has said.
CIPFA (Charteded Institute of Public Finance & Accountancy)의 최신 수치에 따르면 지난 10년간 영국에서 도서관 대출이 43% 감소
Figures released earlier this month showed 35 libraries closed in 2018/19, while 17.7% of libraries (around 800 in total) had shut in the past decade. Library spend was up slightly year-on-year by 0.4% but there were seven million fewer visits and a 4.4% fall in books issued.
2018/19 년에 35개의 도서관이 문을 닫았으며, 지난 10년간 도서관의 17.7%(총 800여 개)가 문을 닫았습니다. 도서관 지출은 전년 대비 0.4% 증가했지만 방문 횟수는 7백만 회 감소했으며 도서 발행량은 4.4% 감소.
Analysing the full figures, which are not made freely available by CIPFA, together with past results, Coates said loans of printed books in English libraries stood at 150 million in the past year, adding to a total drop of 43% in the last decade and 59% since the turn of the millennium. There were also 371 libraries run by volunteers in 2018/19, up from 272 the previous year.
도서관의 인쇄물 도서 대출은 지난 1년간 1억 5천만 건으로 지난 10년 동안 총 43%가 감소했으며 새 천 년 이후에는 59% 감소. 2018/19년에는 자원봉사자가 운영하는 도서관이 371개로 전년도 272개에서 증가.
The pattern was largely repeated in the rest of Great Britain. In Scotland expenditure on printed books was £6m, while Wales’ figure stood at £3.2m. Visits to libraries have fallen by 12% and 8% in Scotland and Wales respectively during the past 10 years, while the number of books issued dropped 42% and 28.4%.
지난 10년간 스코틀랜드와 웨일즈의 도서관 방문은 각각 12%와 8% 감소, 발행된 도서 수는 42%와 28.4% 감소.
Coates, former Waterstones m.d. and library campaigner, said: “The British public library service is in a terrible state and will require major reorganisation if it is, in future, to be useful. That is what the history of CIPFA figures show. It is confirmed by the recent set. Use of the service has been falling regularly for the past 20 years, and funding has been falling for the past 10. In comparison, for example, to America and to Australia, the figures for the UK are simply dire.”
도서관 운동가인 코츠는 다음과 같이 말했습니다 :“영국의 공공도서관 서비스는 끔찍한 상태이며 향후 유용하게 활용될 수 있도록 주요 조직 개편이 필요할 것입니다.”
He added reports, plans and initiatives to arrest the decline had failed, including the creation of the Libraries Task Force.
Coates said: “Looking through the figures of those councils that have reported, such is the extent of decline, it is difficult to find any examples of consistent good practice that might be shared elsewhere. Of the multitude of problems facing UK public libraries, it is hard to see if any have been solved in the past 12 months—or even if any have been acknowledged.”
“영국의 공공도서관이 직면한 수많은 문제들 중에서 지난 12개월 동안 어떤 문제가 해결되었는지, 또는 어떤 것이 인정되었는지조차 확인하기가 어렵습니다.”
He also claimed 68 out of 205 councils in Great Britain—33% of the total—did not provide financial figures this year, with others failing to give performance statistics. They included some of the largest like Liverpool, Birmingham and Kent, alongside controversial authorities such as Bradford, Derby and Dundee.
그는 또한 영국의 205개 위원회 중 68개(전체의 33%)가 올해 재무 수치를 제공하지 않았으며 다른 사람들은 성과 통계를 제공하지 않았다고 주장했다.
Coates said: “These figures put into serious doubt any national figures that CIPFA, the UK body responsible, have estimated and published this week to represent annual performance.
“This lack of basic information is sadly indicative of a public service which—in so many councils and among so many of its public officials— appears to operate with complete lack of consideration of the public who pay for it and whom it exists to serve.
“The CIPFA figures for any council are very hard and expensive for a member of the public to obtain. When people are asked, as they often are, to participate in consultation about changes to the service, it is galling to find that so many councils do not provide the basic figures that they should.”
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