{"id":461,"date":"2014-04-15T07:40:26","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T06:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/?p=461"},"modified":"2014-04-15T07:40:26","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T06:40:26","slug":"2014-state-of-american-libraries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/2014\/04\/15\/2014-state-of-american-libraries\/","title":{"rendered":"2014 State of American Libraries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/files\/2014\/04\/NLW14_Blume_leaderboard.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-465\" alt=\"NLW14_Blume_leaderboard\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/files\/2014\/04\/NLW14_Blume_leaderboard.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"62\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/files\/2014\/04\/NLW14_Blume_leaderboard.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/files\/2014\/04\/NLW14_Blume_leaderboard-300x37.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">In conjunction with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/conferencesevents\/celebrationweeks\/natlibraryweek\">National Library Week <\/a>in the United States this week (April 13-19) the American Library Association has released its report on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanlibrariesmagazine.org\/issue\/state-americas-libraries-2014\">2014 State of America&#8217;s Libraries <\/a>, detailing library trends of the past year. Its findings include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\">\u00a0More than 90% of the respondents in an independent national survey by the Pew Research Center\u2019s Internet and American Life Project said that libraries are important to the community.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\">School libraries continue to feel the combined pressures of recession-driven financial tightening and federal neglect, according to the survey, and school libraries in some districts and some states still face elimination or deprofessionalization of their programs.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\">96% of Americans agree that public libraries are important because they provide tech resources and access to materials, and the same number find libraries valuable because they promote literacy and a love of reading.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"text-align: left\">More than 90% of traditional public schools have a school library, but public schools continue to struggle with the impact of funding cuts and reductions in professional staffing.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">AC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 In conjunction with National Library Week in the United States this week (April 13-19) the American Library Association has released its report on the 2014 State of America&#8217;s Libraries , detailing library trends of the past year. Its findings include: \u00a0More than 90% of the respondents in an independent national survey by the Pew [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":723,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20881,20916],"class_list":["post-461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-american-library-association","tag-state-of-americas-libraries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/723"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":467,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461\/revisions\/467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ifla.org\/public-libraries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}