Around 1.3 million Saxony-Anhalters borrowed something in the state's libraries in 2020.
Around five million media were used, as the state department for public libraries announced on Libraries Day on Sunday.
There are currently 184 public libraries in the country.
The libraries feel the pressure of competition from changing forms of media usage enormously.
Magdeburg - "Surfing the Internet has increasingly become a big time-waster, plus social media, including television, sports, cinema, to name just a few," said the head of the department, Ulrike Reichmann.
Reading is just one leisure activity among many.
More and more libraries therefore tried to make media accessible online.
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Libraries are meeting places where information is exchanged, education and communication take place, representatives of all generations can meet and feel good, said Reichmann.
"This is where media education, democracy education and reading promotion take place, libraries are places of sustainability." Dpa
