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dwellers paid a visit to the library with a view to reading, borrowing and utilizing the internet in a separate year 2006. As is illustrated by the table, the use of the internet experienced an upward trend whereas the rate of people reading newspapers and returning books underwent the downward trends. It is immediately apparent from the table, the readerships of newspapers and magazines was the most widely-used at 4402 initially however, it dropped considerably to 3895 visitors and continuously declined and hit the lowest point (3517). Similarly, starting at the highest (1965), the figure of residents in order to borrow books continued to decrease but hit a trough of 800 and became the less commonplace over the same period. In contrast, with only 780 initially, the quantity of internet users saw a two-fold increase, surpassed that of the others and reached a peak at 4010. In conclusion, there were changing patterns in the popularity of reading books and using the internet, from being the most popular to the least and vice versa.