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Kathi Inman Berens, Associate Professor of Book Publishing and Digital Humanities, Portland State University

Gen Z and millennials have an unlikely love affair with their local libraries

Libraries can be an oasis from doomscrolling and information overload. Diliff/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA
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A phone fixation may seem at odds with an attraction to books. But the latter may offer a much-needed reprieve from the former.

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