Manchester’s libraries gained almost 700,000 visitors last year – mainly down to the Central Library’s successful reopening.

A total of 2.8m people visited the city’s network of libraries in 2015.

This was 691,200 more than the 2.13m who came through the doors in 2014, figures released to the M.E.N. under Freedom of Information show.

Reported by the Manchester Evening News. You can read the full story here. 

Matthew Burgess
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I am a journalist and author. I am a journalist at the UK edition of WIRED magazine. In 2015, my first book Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide for UK Journalists, was published. My second book Reed Hastings: Building Netflix, was published in March 2020. I created FOI Directory in 2012 and have maintained it in my spare time ever since.