Generation Y biggest user of libraries: survey | Reuters

Generation Y biggest user of libraries: survey

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Sun Dec 30, 2007 4:08pm EST

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A woman stands among the bookshelves in the main reading room of The New York Public Library, December 14, 2004.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than half of Americans visited a library in the past year with many of them drawn in by the computers rather than the books, according to a survey released on Sunday.

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Of the 53 percent of U.S. adults who said they visited a library in 2007, the biggest users were young adults aged 18 to 30 in the tech-loving group known as Generation Y, the survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project said.