Bookish Diversions: Shhh! Happens

Younger Americans Love Libraries, Free(ish) for All, Unquiet Librarians, the Library of Mistakes, Tattoos, More

¶ Younger Americans love libraries. Millennials and Gen Zers spend time at their local library more frequently than their elders. “54% of Gen Zers and millennials trekk[ed] to their local library in 2022,” say Portland State University professors Kathi Inman Berens and Rachel Noorda, compared to 45 percent of Gen Xers and 43 percent of boomers.

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