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Gen Z and millennials have an unlikely love affair with their local libraries

  • Written by Kathi Inman Berens, Associate Professor of Book Publishing and Digital Humanities, Portland State University
imageLibraries can be an oasis from doomscrolling and information overload.Diliff/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SAimageCC BY-ND

A phone fixation may seem at odds with an attraction to books. But the latter may offer a much-needed reprieve from the former.

In our recent study of American Gen Z and millennials, we discovered that 92% of them check social media...

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