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For phone access, click on phone icon below to get your unique PIN, and dial Data Collection Telephone Surveys, March - May ,860 Adult Respondents 6 States (California, Florida, Texas, New York, North Carolina, Nevada) 70% of US-Latino Population in 6 states

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For phone access, click on phone icon below to get your unique PIN, and dial Findings Percent Visited Library Gen. Pop. 63% Latino 49% Our Latino sample unweighted 49% Weighted 53%

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For phone access, click on phone icon below to get your unique PIN, and dial Satisfaction English books (93.3%) CDs (87.2%) movies (85.8%) newspapers/brochures/m agazines (89.8%) children’s books (91.9%) children’s movies (86.9%) Spanish books (74.0%) CDs (65.5%) movies (63.5%) newspapers/brochures/m agazines (78.2%) children’s books (76.5%) children’s movies (66.9%)

For phone access, click on phone icon below to get your unique PIN, and dial Demographics Sex Visited in the Past Year –Female- 60% –Male- 48% Education Never Been to Library –< High School- 46.8%

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For phone access, click on phone icon below to get your unique PIN, and dial Demographics "Traditional Immigration" states Once or twice a year- 13.5% Every other month- 9.9% Monthly- 16.7% Weekly- 11.6% Daily- 1.0% "New Destination" states Once or twice a year- 12.1% Every other month- 9.4% Monthly- 17.4% Weekly- 10.2% Daily- 1.9%

For phone access, click on phone icon below to get your unique PIN, and dial Demographics New Destination states –Never went- 30.0% –Visited but not in past year- 19.1% Traditional Immigration states –Never went- 22.1% –Visited but not in past year- 25.3%

For phone access, click on phone icon below to get your unique PIN, and dial Baseline Regression Significant Factors Sex (b=.48, p<.001) Age ("55 and over" b=-.22, p<.10) Income ("$65k and over" b=-.27, p<.01) Education (b=.14, p<.001) English Fluency (b=.23, p<.001)

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For phone access, click on phone icon below to get your unique PIN, and dial Perceptions of the library Strong relationships with library visits Staff is not helpful (b=-.25, p<.001) Staff treats everybody fairly and equally (b=.21, p<.001) Weak relationships with library visits Staff could not speak Spanish (b=-.09, p<.10) They do not have enough resources in Spanish (n.s.)

For phone access, click on phone icon below to get your unique PIN, and dial Reasons for Attending Borrowing movies (b=.46, p<.001) Borrowing music (b=.41, p<.001) Learning English (b=.30, p<.001) Relaxing/ quiet time (b=.30, p<.001) Reading or borrowing books (b=.28, p<.001) Using a computer (b=.26, p<.001) Taking children (b=.22, p<.01)

For phone access, click on phone icon below to get your unique PIN, and dial Suggestions Information on jobs (b=-.29, p<.001) Longer hours (b=-.24, p<.001) English materials more strongly related with library visits than Spanish materials Materials for children in English (b=-.21, p<.01) Materials for children in Spanish (b=-.11, p<.01) Books/CDs/DVDs/VHS in English (b=-.11, p<.01) Books/CDs/DVDs/VHS in Spanish (n.s.) Bilingual staff is not at all correlated with library visits (n.s.)

For phone access, click on phone icon below to get your unique PIN, and dial Conclusion Demographics Demographics matter as with general population Latino attendance affected by generation as well Generation not relevant after controlling for demographic differences Measures of 'acculturation' not relevant after controls, either English language fluency is strong predictor

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