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reportDec 11, 2013

How Americans Value Public Libraries in Their Communities

54% of Americans used a public library in the past year; 72% live in a “library household”
reportDec 11, 2013

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 […]
reportOct 29, 2014

Elaborations: More Expert Responses

Following are additional provocative and thoughtful answers from other respondents, organized in the same format as those in the summary. First, the insights of those who responded “yes” to the question, next the thoughts of those who answered “no,” closing with additional observations. Themes among those who responded ‘yes,’ there will be major cyber attacks […]
reportMar 11, 2014

The More-Hopeful Theses

This report reflects the responses to the sixth Future of the Internet survey, a canvassing of experts about their attitudes on the likely future impacts of evolving communications networks. Experts’ remarks in the previous five surveys generally expressed enthusiasm about the potential benefits of technological evolution. In this, the 2014 survey, their optimistic responses are […]
reportDec 11, 2013

About this Report

This report is part of a larger research effort by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project that is exploring the role libraries play in people’s lives and in their communities. The research is underwritten by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. This report contains findings from a nationally representative survey of 6,224 Americans ages […]
reportFeb 20, 2014

Appendix: How to analyze social media networks

See related document at: https://assets.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2014/02/How-we-analyzed-Twitter-social-media-networks.pdf Resources and references Adamic, Lada A, and Natalie Glance. “The political blogosphere and the 2004 US election: divided they blog.” Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Link discovery 21 Aug. 2005: 36-43. Early work documenting polarization in social media through an analysis of networks of blog connections. Andrei Broder, Ravi […]
presentationNov 12, 2013

Books, libraries, and the changing digital landscape

Kathryn Zickuhr will explore not only how libraries are dealing with the changing technological environment, but also the larger context of Americans’ reading and library habits, and what they expect from libraries in the future.
reportMar 11, 2014

The Gurus Speak

Among the experts who contributed to this project were some of the most prominent Internet analysts of our generation. Here we highlight the predictions of some of the people most deeply involved in shaping our digital present. New business models, Internet voting, privacy, MOOCs Vint Cerf, Google vice president and chief Internet evangelist, predicted, “There […]
short readsDec 23, 2013

Congress ends least-productive year in recent history

Congress enacted 57 laws — just 49 of them substantive — in the first session of its two-year term, the smallest first-year legislative output in nearly two decades.
presentationOct 29, 2013

The New Library Patron

Library patrons and non-patrons: Who they are, what their information needs are, what kind of technology they use, and how libraries can meet the varying needs of their patrons.