Overall Public Library Use - Over 69 percent of U.S. residents age 14 or older have visited a public library at least once in the past 12 months. Library visits are highest among:
- The working poor (earning 100–200 percent of federal poverty guidelines) and those with income more than 300 percent of the poverty guidelines;
- People of mixed race, Asians, Native Hawaiians or Pacific Islanders, and Whites;
- 14–18, 35–44, and 65–74 year olds;
- Women; and
- People with educational attainment beyond high school.
Internet access is now one of the most sought after public library services, and it is used by nearly half of all visitors.
people google info for their daily life need(private matter) or yahoo news at library (but not for reading e-books at library)
ReplyDeletemany people still don't have internet access at home. library provide "free access" is the key for the visitors. not because they switch from reading hard copy books to e-books.
didn't see anyone read e-book online at library.
But the borrowing power at library decrease is because the available of free download plus the birth of e-reader devices.