截至2012年底，上海市民中共有190萬人次擁有上海圖書館及市中心圖書館的借閱證，其中一位“逛館達人”到過41家圖書館，而借閱量最大的一位讀者去年借過3134冊圖書。
Shanghai (CNS)— Shanghai residents are still clinging to traditional printed books in the digital age, according to a white paper issued by the Shanghai Library on Sunday.
The "2012 Reading Report on Shanghai Public Libraries" is the first published white paper on library book reading among Shanghai readers.
By the end of 2012, a total of 1.9 million Shanghai residents had gotten reader's cards from the Shanghai Library and the Shanghai City library, the report shows. One frequent library goer in the city visited 41 libraries, while the most avid reader borrowed 3,134 books last year.
The paper shows that the average number of books borrowed by each reader in Shanghai last year stood at 27.73, much higher than the average number of paper books read by Chinese in other cities.
The readership was fairly evenly distributed between males, at 52 percent, and females, at 48 percent, while readers aged between 20 to 40 accounted for 62 percent of all adult readers.
The report also shows that readers at the Shanghai Library and the Shanghai City library came from over 100 countries in Asia, Europe and the Americas, a manifestation of the city as an international metropolis.
In 2012, the total circulation of Shanghai City library exceeded 37.71 million, up 23.5 percent over the same period of the previous year. About 50,000 readers have borrowed books from the library, and books on literature, history, geography and industrial science are the most popular categories among readers in Shanghai.
Currently, the "smart card system" used by the Shanghai City library incorporates 249 institutions and 283 service outlets
截至2012年底，上海市民中共有190萬人次擁有上海圖書館及市中心圖書館的借閱證，其中一位“逛館達人”到過41家圖書館，而借閱量最大的一位讀者去年借過3134冊圖書。
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