Millennials still checking out public libraries

The Chicago Tribune reports:

It may come as a surprise to those of a certain age group, but millennials are more likely than their elders to say important information is not available on the Internet. Younger folks also are more likely to have read a book in the last year and are just as engaged in their libraries as older individuals.

At least those are conclusions from the latest work of the Pew Research Center Internet Project, which has pulled together years of research on the role of libraries in Americans lives, with a special focus on millennials — generally identified as people ages 16-29.

The results, from three national surveys of Americans 16 years of age and older, found that 62 percent of Americans under 30 years old agree that there is "a lot of useful, important information that is not available on the Internet," say Kathryn Zickhur and Lee Rainie, authors of a Sept. 10 report on the survey. By comparison, 53 percent of older Americans said they believe that.

Imagine that.