Libraries | Millennials | Public services | Podcast
By Paulina Velasco
August 25, 2017 | 4:32 PM
A library at a secondary school in London. - Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images
Millennials are renowned for loving old things — vinyl records, retro bicycles, film cameras. What about old institutions?
Despite
being the generation that grew up hand-in-hand with technology, it
turns out the millennial generation — those between ages 18 and 35
— love public libraries.
They're more likely than baby boomers or Gen Xers to visit the local public library or a public bookmobile. A Pew Research Center study found that 53 percent of millennials in the U.S. had used their public library at least once in the year prior to the survey.
What have libraries been doing that's attracting so many young adults? Marketplace Weekend staff discovered a few exciting things: Read more...
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