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    Libraries and communities

    what types of services Americans value in their libraries and what additional services they would like their libraries to offer.

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    Methods

    Pew Research Center Library Survey Prepared by Princeton Survey Research Associates International for the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project October 2013   Summary The Pew Research Center Library Survey, sponsored by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, obtained telephone interviews with a nationally representative sample of 6,224 people ages […]

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    A Snapshot of Reading in America in 2013

    Who’s reading—and how: A demographic portrait As of January 2014, some 76% of American adults ages 18 and older said that they read at least one book in the past year. Almost seven in ten adults (69%) read a book in print in the past 12 months, while 28% read an e-book, and 14% listened […]

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    The New Library

    What people do at libraries and what they’d like libraries to become

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    Mobile Health in Context

    Susannah Fox will deliver a keynote address to a symposium hosted by the University of Maryland Health Sciences & Human Services Library in Baltimore

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    The next rural library

    Lee Rainie speaks about the Project’s latest research about the way people use libraries and the role they play in their communities.

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    The Mobile Difference

    Overview of Pew Internet’s mobile connectivity findings and their implications for libraries

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    Main Report

    Offline Adults As of May 2013, some 15% of American adults ages 18 and older do not use the internet or email.[2.numoffset=”2″ Changes in wording and methods over time—see “Survey Questions” at end of the report for details.] Another 85% of U.S. adults do go online, as shown in the chart below. As in previous […]

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    How Americans go online

    A breakdown of how internet users go online, including those with home access and the type of access, is shown in this table.