Generation Y biggest user of U.S. libraries, survey finds
Computer World has an interesting article about Generation Y (adults 18-30) that have visited public libraries in the US in 
2007. According to the article, “Sixty-two percent of Gen Y respondents said they visited a public library in the past year.” However, they weren’t there for the books. Leigh Estabrook, a professor emerita at the University of Illinois and co-author of a report on the survey results states, “Internet use seems to create an information hunger, and it is information-savvy young people who are most likely to visit libraries.”
Read the entire article here.
I see this same thing in our media center at school. Before school and during lunch periods, the media center is buzzing, but there are very few kids reading…they are all there for the computers and the Internet. It’s pretty interesting to see and it makes me wonder what the numbers will look like in a few years when current high schoolers have graduated and moved on…
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