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short readsApr 27, 2015

Job categories where union membership has fallen off most

The American public’s generally favorable view of labor unions hasn’t stopped, or even slowed, union membership’s long decline.
reportMar 17, 2015

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Brown, Anna, and Eileen Patten. 2014. “Statistical Portrait of Hispanics in the United States, 2012: Table 9.” Washington, D.C.: Pew Research Center, April. Hoffman, Judy, John Carlo Bertot, and Denise M. Davis. 2012. “Libraries Connect Communities: Public Library Funding & Technology Access Study 2011-2012.” Chicago: American Library Association, June. Lopez, Mark Hugo, and Ana Gonzalez-Barrera. […]
datasetApr 12, 2015

March 17-April 12, 2015 – Libraries and Technology Use

This survey contains questions about American adults’ relationship with public libraries as well as their use of various technological devices.
reportJun 11, 2015

Appendix B: Explanation of Ancestry Analysis

We use information on respondent ancestry reported in the 1980-2000 decennial censuses and the 2010-2012 American Community Survey (ACS) to estimate the proportion of the population with two significantly different racial ancestries. The ancestry question is an open-ended question that allows respondents to report up to two ancestries. The three-year 2010-2012 ACS was used, rather […]
reportMar 17, 2015

Public Libraries and Hispanics

Hispanic immigrants are less likely than U.S.-born Hispanics, whites and blacks to use public libraries. But Hispanic immigrants who have made their way to public libraries stand out as the most appreciative of what libraries have to offer.
reportMar 17, 2015

Chapter 3: Experiences Using and Finding Information

Hispanics have somewhat different patterns of information consumption than whites and blacks, according to the Pew Research Center Library Services Survey. For example, Hispanics are more likely to prefer learning in an audio or visual format over text compared with non-Hispanics, and more likely to say that they like hunting for facts and information that […]
reportMar 17, 2015

Appendix A: Statistical Portrait of Library Users
short readsFeb 13, 2015

From telegrams to Instagram, a look at presidents and technology

President Obama’s recent interviews with Buzzfeed and Vox, and his embrace of online news and social media more generally, stands in a long tradition of presidents employing novel communications technologies to speak to Americans directly.
presentationNov 13, 2014

The Next Library and the People Who Will Use It

The latest findings from the Pew Research Center’s library research and the implications of that research for the future of libraries
reportJan 5, 2015

Table: Number of Congressmen by Religious Affiliation

Display: Number | Percentage Religion 87th 91st 96th 101st 106th 111th 112th 113th 114th (’61-’62) (’69-’71) (’79-’80) (’89-’90) (’99-’00) (’09-’10) (’11-’12) (’13-’14) (’15-’16) Protestant 398 379 340 325 315 295 307 299 306 Baptist 62 53 55 55 70 66 68 73 79 Methodist 97 88 78 78 64 57 51 46 45 Presbyterian 73 […]

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March 17-April 12, 2015 – Libraries and Technology Use

Public Libraries and Hispanics

Chapter 3: Experiences Using and Finding Information

Appendix A: Statistical Portrait of Library Users

The Next Library and the People Who Will Use It

Table: Number of Congressmen by Religious Affiliation

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