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The State of America's Libraries

The ALA's 2007 report on The State of America's Libraries was released this week. Among the findings:


  • The number of visits to public libraries in the United States increased 61% between 1994 and 2004

  • Academic and research libraries' e-book purchases increased 68% from 2002 to 2004

  • 68% of respondents 18 to 24 years old visited a library last year, compared with only 48% of those 55 years and older

  • 44% of people under age 35 used libary computers, compared with 22% of those 55 and older

  • Virtually all (99%) U.S. public libraries now provide free public computer access to the Internet, compared to 25% 10 years ago

There's a lot more where that came from. if you're overwhelmed by the whole thing, just check out the executive summary.

Posted by eileen o'shea at 2:49 PM in Keeping Up | | Comments (0)

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