MCI's response to PQ on Physical NLB Books Borrowed, Reserved and Collected in 2023

10 JAN 2024

Parliament Sitting on 10 January 2024

QUESTION FOR WRITTEN ANSWER

33. Mr Gerald Giam Yean Song: To ask the Minister for Communications and Information in the last one year (a) how many National Library Board’s members have borrowed at least one physical book from the libraries; (b) what has been the total number of physical books borrowed; and (c) of these, how many have been reserved and collected as opposed to being picked up from the bookshelves.

Answer:

  1. Over the one-year period from December 2022 to November 2023, 524,000 National Library Board (NLB) members borrowed at least one physical book from NLB’s libraries. They made a total of 20.9 million physical loans and renewals of books, of which 141,000 were reservations.