More libraries than McDonalds and Americans still rely on them according to new Pew Research study

Technology not overshadowing libraries

from NBC News

Just when you think all that personal technology has replaced the need for a trip to the local public library comes a report from Pew research that silences that theory.

Pew’s three year study shows half of all Americans went to a public library in person while another 30-percent used a library’s website over the last year.

Mostly it was for the time-honored tradition of checking out a book.

“Our reading habits – especially when you look at our reading habits around books – are still very much centered around print books,” says Kathryn Zickuhr, Pew Research Center.

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