Americans spend more than three times as much on salty snacks as they do on public libraries. Americans check out an average of seven books a year. Public libraries are the number one point of online access for people without Internet connections at home, school or work. School Research shows the highest achieving students attend schools with good library media centers. Academic Academic librarians answer 97 million reference questions each year - almost three times the attendance at college football games.
College libraries receive less than three cents of every dollar spent on higher education.