Tuesday, January 11, 2011

America's Most Literate Cities 2010

What makes a city literate? Among other things - library resources - support, holdings and utilization. This critical index of America's social health uses a set of factors to measure people's use of their literacy and thus presents a large-scale portrait of the nation's cultural vitality. "From this data we can better perceive the extent and quality of the long-term literacy essential to individual economic success, civic participation, and the quality of life in a community and a nation."

http://www.ccsu.edu/page.cfm?p=8227

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