Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
For a while, the 164-year-old Columbia Daily Herald-serving a small Tennessee city 50 miles south of Nashville-had been insulated from the worst of the economic ills that have battered larger daily newspapers. But in recent years, the recession has hit the community of 35,000 hard and the paper has suffered. For publisher Mark Palmer-who knows, […]
In our spring 2012 survey we asked all cell owners to tell us in their own words the one thing that they like the most — and also the one thing that they like the least — about their cell phone. Each of these questions prompted a wide range of responses, although a few key […]
The internet has already had a major impact on how people find and access information, and now the rising popularity of e-books is helping transform Americans’ reading habits. In this changing landscape, public libraries are trying to adjust their services to these new realities while still serving the needs of patrons who rely on more traditional resources.
Library Services Survey Prepared by Princeton Survey Research Associates International for the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project November 2012 SUMMARY The Library Services Survey obtained telephone interviews with a nationally representative sample of 2,252 people ages 16 and older living in the United States. Interviews were conducted via landline (nLL=1,127) and cell […]
In addition to asking people about their general feelings about libraries and their patterns of patronage, Pew Internet’s survey explored in depth what people do at libraries – both at the physical facilities and on library websites. These responses reported below were asked of the 53% of Americans who say they visited a library or […]
Virtually all of the participating organizations have a website, and 97% have organizational profiles on various social media sites. This section examines how arts organizations manage their internet properties, and the platforms in which they participate. Section four examines social media use in detail. Website maintenance Providing rich information about an arts organization’s projects, events, […]
Younger adults, people with higher levels of education, and those living in households earning $75,000 or more are more likely than others to have performed several of the cell phone activities the Pew Internet Project queried. What follows are tables of the demographic composition of those who perform these core cell phone activities. Taking pictures […]
The digital technology revolutions that have swept over the American population have affected arts organizations as well. Alongside advances in computing, broadband connectivity, and mobile phones has been the development of social media networks like Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest, photo-sharing services like Flickr and Instagram, video sites like YouTube and Vimeo, check-in apps like Foursquare, […]
This report is part of a series exploring the rising e-book environment and its impact on the general reading habits of Americans, as well as its impact on public libraries. To understand the place e-reading, e-books, and libraries have in Americans’ evolving reading habits, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awarded the Pew Internet Project […]