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    Part 7: Librarians’ thoughts

    Using both focus groups and a non-scientific sample of people who volunteered to participate in Pew Internet surveys, we asked library staff members from around the country about their thoughts on many of the library services discussed in this report. This section includes some of their comments on library services for parents and children, including […]

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    Appendix 1: Methodology

    This is the fourth time the Pew Research Center has measured restrictions on religion around the globe.24 This report, which includes data for the year ending Dec. 31, 2011, follows the same methodology as Pew Research’s September 2012 report, “Rising Tide of Restrictions on Religion.” Pew Research uses two 10-point indexes – the Government Restrictions […]

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    Part 5: Parents, children, and libraries

    Parents value libraries for their children The previous section highlights the importance parents place on public libraries for themselves and for their communities and the fact that parents are more likely than other adults to view libraries as important. Given those findings, it is not surprising that parents of minor children view public libraries as […]

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    Innovative library services “in the wild”

    Our new report takes a close look not only at how Americans are using public libraries, but also what sort of services and programming they think libraries should offer — and what they say they would use in the future. For this last point, we asked about a range of potential offerings. Here are illustrations of some of these more innovative services, to see what they look like on the ground — as well as some “fun and funky” services that we’ve seen pop up at libraries across the county.

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    Section 3: Website Use

    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, […]

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    Section 5: Technology and Organizational Function

    While this survey was designed to collect information about arts organizations’ public-facing participation in technology and social media, it also gathered some benchmark data about how they are infusing technology into their staffing, training, and workflow, and how they are normalizing its use through new guidelines and organizational procedures. Staffing and hiring Eighty-eight percent of […]

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    Section 6: Overall Impact of Technology on the Arts

    The arts organizations represented in the survey tend to agree with the notions that the internet and social media have “increased engagement” and made art a more participatory experience, and that they have helped make “arts audiences more diverse.”  They also tend to agree that the internet has “played a major role in broadening the […]

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    Part 4: What people want from their libraries

    In addition to asking people how they use their local public libraries, we also asked them about how much they felt they know about the different services and programs their library offers. We also examined how important Americans feel various library services are to their communities, and explored what sort of activities and resources people […]

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    Santa Rosa Press Democrat – The Media Lab

    The Santa Rosa Press Democrat is housed in a boxy, nondescript building in a section of downtown Santa Rosa, Calif. with a distinctly old-fashioned feel. But on the main floor of the newspaper, right off the lobby, visitors enter a modern space with large conference rooms, big plasma screens and sleek black furniture that would […]

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    Main Report

    Two-thirds of U.S. adults are overweight or obese[3.numoffset=”3″ FastStats: Obesity and Overweight. Centers for Disease Control. Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/overwt.htm] and nearly half are living with some other chronic condition such as hypertension, diabetes, heart conditions, lung conditions, and cancer. Self-monitoring has been shown to be an ingredient for improving health outcomes, particularly among people trying […]

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