What's interesting about the research is not just the financial value it shows for what we know libraries do well, but how it reinforces the fact that the impact of these different areas - digital inclusion, health and well being, children's literacy - are all connected in many ways.

Only Public Libraries can provide this integrated approach:
"Services & resources for living, and for living better" as one of the library users said

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It's not clear from the previous graph whether the digital events through covid had greater reach - this shows an answer.

While digital events had significant reach (blue), the sheer number of physical events means total reach of physical events (red) is much higher, even though no.s at each event are lower.

Physical events are now reaching more than 3 times the number of people than digital events managed through the pandemic.

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This graph shows activities and events.

* Blue circles represent digital events in each region
* red squares represent physical events.

The size of the squares / circles represents the number of attendees that month
The position up the graph represents the number of events.

We see from October 2021 and then again from March 2022, the reopening and increase numbers of physical events with higher numbers of events in each region.

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Looking at audio borrowing:

• lower physical audio lending - red -(e.g. cds) but consistent over past 12 months.
Likely represents people who *can't* shift to digital content for reasons of equipment / skills - so a core group that is highly reliant on the service.

Digital audio - in blue - has increased dramatically from an average of 6000 /month / library service to 18,000.
Big impact on budget as digital audio =££££

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