Love those books (oh, and the internet)

A quick follow up to the previous post about Welsh Libraries increasing their number of visitors.

Here's an article from the South Wales Echo, available online at WalesOnline, including an interview with Cardiff Central Library's manager...

Library visits show we are a nation of book lovers
Jun 4 2010 by Claire Miller, South Wales Echo

Some better news

Paige Turner (over at Swansea Libraries) had a link to this BBC page, which shows Welsh Libraries doing better than average across the UK.


Swansea Central Library came top. For a glimpse of the new look to the design of libraries, go look at this page on Opening The Book.

just passing through

I like to have some idea of visitor numbers, even though a lot of hits may come from trawling search engine robots, etc.

I noticed that my great little Clustr map had suddenly lost all its exciting dots, but that happens fairly regularly (the maps get archived) or the whole thing would turn into a red splurge.

Still, I miss the excitement, so I thought I'd just post up the 2009 archived map.