TABLE 37

CoNCENTRATION OF Book BORROWING BY ADULTS, 194§ AND 1047,
MonTcrAIR, N.]J., FREe PusLic LiBrRARY

PERCENTAGES

 

Adult Population® Adult Registration Adult Borrowers
Category 1945 1947 1945 1947 1945 1947
of Use (36,500) (36,500) (15,203) (10,916) (6,350) (7,825)

Registered with library 41.7 30.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Accounted for total adult :

circulation 17.4 21.4 41.8 71.§ 100.0 100.0
Accounted for about three

fourths of the adult cir-

culation 33 4.6 8.0 15.2 19.4 21.3
Accounted for about two

thirds of the adult cir-

culation 2.8 3.3 6.0 1.2 14.7 15.6
Accounted for about half :

of the adult circulation 13 335 3.2 5.6 257 7.8

“Population figures for Montclair from 1940 census, and therefore somewhat outdated.