Public Libraries Are Better Than Congress, Baseball, and Apple Pie, Say Americans - Robinson Meyer - The Atlantic

Public approval polls reveal the amazing truth!

Robinson Meyer Dec 13 2013, 8:10 AM ET

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Every so often, a grave and concerned person will ask (as, in fact, the New York Times asked last year): “Do We Still Need Libraries?” Hasn’t the Internet kind of, you know, ended all that? Aren’t libraries falling behind?

Tellingly, the Times could find no one to argue against libraries, and that mirrors American sentiment pretty much exactly. A new Pew study finds that not only do Americans adore libraries, but a majority of us think they’re adjusting to new technology just fine.

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