Zickuhr, K. From
distant admirers to library lovers - and beyond. Pew Research
Center's Internet & Life Project. Web. 13 Mar. 2014.
<http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/03/13/library-engagement-typology/>.
From Distant Admirers to Library Lovers - and Beyond
Interesting
research data. I was very intrigued with
how older and educated people value the library more in the community than less
educated or younger people.
The library users are
divided in four categories; 30% high engagement, 39% medium engagement, 17% low
engagement, and 14% no personal library use.
From this four categories each category was then divided by
subcategories. In high engagement there
are two subcategories library lovers and information omnivore. After reading the categories and
subcategories I realized I was an information omnivore.
I do believe the
library plays an important role in the community. Even though my children and I have the amenity
of having books and internet at home I take my children to the library to check
out books and be involved with the upcoming events. They like to look for books they are interested. My son whom is older loves dinosaurs. He loves that there is a section just for dinosaurs. He’s too young to read the majority of the
books but loves to see the pictures. During
the summer the library is a great place to take the little ones. The public library arranges entertaining activities for children to participate. My
children have seen a dinosaur presentation, which my son loved and they have also gone to watch a movie with
kids their age.
I thought this report was an interesting and thought provoking. This report gives sufficient data to know find out what kind of library engagement one has.
8 page report
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