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The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) recently released the findings of its latest Survey of Public Participation in the Arts, conducted in July 2012. It found 58% of all American adults ages 18 and older had engaged in “voluntary reading” within the past year.

Four big points about the impact of technology on learning

Lee Rainie speaks about the Project’s latest research about the way people use libraries and the role they play in their communities.

Research over hundreds of years has consistently found that boys naturally outnumber girls at birth. The speculation is that this is nature’s way of countering the relatively high mortality rates of males, and creating more of a gender balance in the population. While historically, there have been about 105 boys born for every 100 girls […]

This links to a posting about the growing share of U.S. household income that goes to college-educated households, who take home a disproportionate share of aggregate income.

For the first time on record, nearly one out of every two dollars in aggregate U.S. household income went to the college educated.

Overview of Pew Internet's mobile connectivity findings and their implications for libraries

Our online quiz-takers did better than the general public on each of the 13 questions in our latest News IQ Quiz.