An Analysis of Scottish Borrowers' Registers
During the period of study, of the books borrowed from their collections, Royal High School of Edinburgh featured 1966 book holding records and these have been associated with 829 book edition records across 19 genres. Of the books borrowed from Royal High School of Edinburgh, these were written by 464 authors and had 2410 borrowers. Of these, 2408 (99.92%) were Male, 2 (0.08%) were Female. The library documented 19968 borrowing events, 19938 (99.85%) by Male borrowers, 2 (0.01%) by Female borrowers. There were an average of 8.29 borrowings per borrower at this library and of the borrowed books, each book holding was borrowed an average of 10.16 times. At Royal High School of Edinburgh during the period of study, books were borrowed for 48 years between 1770 and 1829, with an average of 416 borrowings per year.