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Not dead yet: Libraries still vital, Pew report finds

David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times

Jan 22, 2013

Perhaps the most groundbreaking aspect of “Library Services in the Digital Age,” the report released today by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project is how non-groundbreaking its findings are.

Based on “a survey of 2,252 Americ...

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The future of libraries

Ben Johnson, Marketplace

Jan 22, 2013

You don't have to be a book worm to know that in 2013, libraries are changing. San Antonio Texas is planning a library that will feature e-readers, laptops, and tablets -- but no books. My neighborhood spot, the Brooklyn Public Library, has an Inform...

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Now It's Digital Book Worms

Jack Loechner, MediaPost

Jan 17, 2013

According to a recent survey by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, in the past year the number of those who read e-books increased from 16% of all Americans ages 16 and older to 23%. At the same time, the number of those who ...

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Mobile Connections to Libraries

Dec 31, 2012Lee Rainie, Kathryn Zickuhr, Maeve Duggan

13% of those ages 16 and older have accessed library websites via mobile devices

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Going mobile: New survey finds more people using mobile devices to visit library websites

Associated Press

Dec 31, 2012

A new Pew study reports that around 13 percent of Americans aged 16 and older used a mobile device to visit a library website during the past year.

Patrons ages 18-49 were the most likely to use a mobile device for the library, while those 65 and ...

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Internet access at libraries

Dec 28, 2012Lee Rainie

In a survey this fall, the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project asked whether people had accessed the internet at a library in the previous 12 months. Some 26% of those ages 16 and older said they had.

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E-book Reading Jumps; Print Book Reading Declines

Dec 27, 2012Lee Rainie, Maeve Duggan

23% of Americans ages 16 and older read an e-book in the past year, up from 16% the year before. The share who read a print book declined to 67%, from 72%

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Readers gravitating to e-books

Cecilia Kang, The Washington Post

Dec 27, 2012

America’s obsession with digital tablets is driving a boon in e-book reading, a new survey shows, a trend that is dampening the appeal of printed books and shaking the centuries-old publishing business.

The share of Americans who read e-books grew...

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Number of e-book readers increasing in United States - survey

Patricia Reaney, Reuters

Dec 27, 2012

(Reuters) - The popularity of electronic books is increasing in the United States, with nearly one-quarter of American bibliophiles reading e-books, according to a survey released on Thursday.

The number of e-readers aged 16 years and older jumped...

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E-Book Reading Is Up, Study Says

David Streitfeld, New York Times

Dec 27, 2012

“The printed page/ was just half a millennium’s brief wonder,” theorized John Updike in a late poem. Exactly when the old order will be completely overthrown is in some dispute, however.

The original thinking was that digital books would triumph v...

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