Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World

Read our research on:

Search results for: “disability”

Refine Your Results

  • report

    Elaborations: More Expert Responses

    Each increment of growth in bandwidth has enabled new communication, new participation in communities, more effective outreach to broader social networks, more access to information, and more algorithmic interventions to sort and filter data. Most of the experts in this canvassing see all those trends being amplified in the decade to come as gigabit connectivity […]

  • report

    Low Engagement

    The three low engagement groups in our typology—Not For Me, Young and Restless, and Rooted and Roadblocked—fall at the farthest end of the spectrum of library users. Unlike members of the medium engagement groups, who generally report being moderately active in their library habits, only about a third of the low engagement users have used […]

  • report

    Section 2: Public Libraries’ Importance and Impact

    Importance of public library services Overall, 91% of Americans either have ever used a public library or said another household member uses a public library.[4. numoffset=”4″ This includes the 86% of Americans ages 16 and older who have ever visited a library or used a library website, and the 54% of Americans who say other […]

  • report

    Section 3: Perceptions of Public Libraries

    Americans’ perceptions of public libraries The vast majority of Americans ages 16 and older say that public libraries play an important role in providing free access to materials and resources, promote literacy and a love of reading, and improve the overall quality of life in a community: 95% of Americans say that “because it provides […]

REfine Your Selection

Years
Formats
Regions & Countries
Topics
Research Teams
Authors