Thread: 2017 survey on book reading in New Zealand
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Old 08-10-2017, 01:14 AM   #16
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Originally Posted by jhowell View Post
So every book had to be lent out over four times on average. I can see that for popular books, but every book in every library?
If New Zealand libraries are like the US, then a very popular book has a two week loan period, which would be 25 loans per year. I've heard tell of individual volumes having 100+ loans per year.

One book with 24 loans per year enables six books to have four loans per year.

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