{"id":2391,"date":"2007-12-30T18:18:27","date_gmt":"2007-12-30T23:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=2391"},"modified":"2007-12-30T18:18:27","modified_gmt":"2007-12-30T23:18:27","slug":"gen-y-loves-libraries-jfox-disses-drm-teachfor-takes-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/gen-y-loves-libraries-jfox-disses-drm-teachfor-takes-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Gen Y loves libraries, J.Fox disses DRM, TeachFor takes off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Generation Y loves public libraries, says Pew Survey <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewinternet.org\/PPF\/r\/231\/report_display.asp\">(survey here)<\/a>. They are the highest percent visitors. But it&#8217;s not the books they are after, says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/domesticNews\/idUSN2849864420071230?pageNumber=1&#038;virtualBrandChannel=0\">the Reuters article on the report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;Internet use seems to create an information hunger and it is information-savvy young people who are most likely to visit libraries,&#8221; [Leigh Estabrook, a professor emerita at the University of Illinois and co-author of a report on the survey results] said.<\/p>\n<p>Internet users were more than twice as likely to patronize libraries as non-Internet users, according to the survey.<br \/>\nMore than two-thirds of library visitors in all age groups said they used computers while at the library.<\/p>\n<p>Sixty-five percent of them looked up information on the Internet while 62 percent used computers to check into the library&#8217;s resources.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe survey showed 62 percent of Generation Y respondents said they visited a public library in the past year, with a steady decline in usage according to age. Some 57 percent of adults aged 43 to 52 said they visited a library in 2007, followed by 46 percent of adults aged 53 to 61; 42 percent of adults aged 62 to 71; and just 32 percent of adults over 72. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Note:<\/strong> this is a telephone based survey and so would likely undercount cell using Gen Ys.<\/p>\n<p>Jason Fox of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxtrot.com\/\">the Foxtrot comic<\/a> and I are on <a href=\"http:\/\/images.ucomics.com\/comics\/ft\/2007\/ft071230.gif\">the same track on many questions of the day<\/a> &#8212; not just <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=2380\">about Ent-mas Trees.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Adam Geller reports that the <a href=\"http:\/\/theblog.teachfor.us\/\">TeachFor.US<\/a> blogosphere of unofficial Teach for American teachers has taken off this past semester. <a href=\"http:\/\/theblog.teachfor.us\/2007\/12\/30\/first-semester-2007-in-numbers\/\">See his numbers here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Generation Y loves public libraries, says Pew Survey (survey here). They are the highest percent visitors. But it&#8217;s not the books they are after, says the Reuters article on the report. &#8220;Internet use seems to create an information hunger and it is information-savvy young people who are most likely to visit libraries,&#8221; [Leigh Estabrook, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}