Everything tagged: Statistics

Extracts from the 2021 Census about the library and information management community.

The new version of the guide is a comprehensive inventory that links to sources of historical statistics.

Data from Overdrive, the leading digital reading platform for libraries worldwide, highlight the continued growth of digital loans in Canadian libraries.

Based on media reports, news releases, and emails with officials, Librarianship.ca compiled numbers of school library workers affected by lay-offs.

Based on media reports, news releases, and emails with officials, Librarianship.ca compiled numbers of library workers affected by temporary lay-offs.

This portal brings together data on the arts, culture, heritage and sports sectors and presents the information in a single interactive website.

The combined number of library visits from two provinces alone (Ontario and British Columbia) exceeds the number of visits to movies theatres in each of the survey years.

Buyers who visited the library 10-14 times in the previous month purchased an average of 6.1 books in a given month.

Over 180,000 artists in Canada: more than auto workers or utilities workers

When it comes to basic data about its own citizens – from divorce rates to driving patterns to labour trends – Canada simply doesn’t have the answers.