According to representatives of the RSL, the main group of readers is a young audience aged 14 to 40 years old - 75.8% of the number of those who signed up in 2021.
Most of them - 59.5% - are women.
"The leading place among the category of readers on the basis of education is occupied by specialists with higher education - 41.4%, students are in second place - 32.7%," the RSL added.
They also specified that 56.9% of the total number of those registered in the library are readers of the complex of humanities and social sciences.
Thus, the institution stated that the average portrait of a RSL reader looks like this: a young woman under 40 years old, who is a social and humanitarian specialist.
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The RSL told how the dynamics of registering readers in the institution has changed.
So, it turned out that in the first half of 2017, 31,529 people signed up for the library: 26,761 in person and 4,768 remotely.
In the first half of 2021, the situation changed somewhat: the number of registered people increased to 33,106 (17,236 signed up in person and 15,870 remotely).
This dynamic changed radically in the six months of 2022: 53,703 people became new readers of the RSL (21,251 joined the library in person and 32,452 remotely).
Earlier it became known that the Moscow International Book Fair will be held in the capital on September 2-5.