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reportDec 11, 2013

How Americans Value Public Libraries in Their Communities

54% of Americans have used a public library in the past year, and 72% live in a “library household.” Most say libraries are very important to their communities.
reportDec 11, 2013

Acknowledgements

A number of experts have helped the Pew Research Center’s Internet Project in this research effort: Andrea Berstler, Director, Wicomico Public Library, Maryland Daphna Blatt, Office of Strategic Planning, The New York Public Library Richard Chabran, Adjunct Professor, University of Arizona, e-learning consultant Larra Clark, American Library Association, Office for Information Technology Policy Mike Crandall, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
reportMar 11, 2014

Predicting the future on the Web’s 25th anniversary

Asked to predict how technology will change over the next decade, hundreds of experts agree that trends now underway will make the internet more important even as it becomes less visible in daily life.
reportJan 6, 2014

Methods

The Pew Research Center Library Survey, sponsored by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project and the Gates Foundation, obtained telephone interviews with a nationally representative sample of 6,224 people ages 16 and older living in the United States. Interviews were conducted via landline (nLL=3,122) and cell phone (nC=3,102, including 1,588 without a […]