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Two-Thirds of Americans Have a Library Card

An interesting study I missed from a few weeks ago . . .:

Two-Thirds of Americans Have a Library Card
Three Quarters of those with a library card have used library in past year

"ROCHESTER, N.Y. ? September 22, 2008 ? September is Library Card Sign-up Month, and two thirds (68%) of Americans currently own a library card. According to the results of a new nationwide Harris Poll of 2,710 U.S. adults surveyed online between August 11 and 17, 2008 by Harris Interactive®:

- Certain groups are more likely to have a library card then others ? Echo Boomers (those between 18-31) are more likely to have one over other age categories (70% versus 68-65%); women over men (73% versus 62%); Hispanics over African Americans and Whites (72% versus 67% and 66%); Midwesterners (72%) and Westerners (71%) over Easterners (65%) and Southerners (63%);
- Politically there is also a difference as Democrats are more likely to have a library card over Republicans and Independents (71% versus 67% and 61%); and,
- Over one-third (35%) of people with a library card have used the library 1 to 5 times in the past year and 15 percent have used it more than 25 times in the past year."

The full report is here and contains a bunch of charts are loads of data.

Stephen

Full post as published by Stephen's Lighthouse on October 06, 2008 (boomark / email).