Reading format preference survey

Recent British research has found that 62% of 16-24s prefer buying books over ebooks. When asked which products currently available for download were preferred as physical objects, 62% agreed with books. Magazines and newspapers collectively had 47% prefer the physical form. Considering magazines are considered more visually attractive due to its use of imagery and glossy paper, these statistics show text-heavy books still have an audience with young people.
Voxburner. (2013). Buying digital content. UK
http://www.voxburner.com/publications/347-62-of-16-24s-prefer-books-as-physical-products

Boys' reading report

The UK's National Literacy Trust has published a report on  boys' reading issues. They explain the gap, noting the factors of gender identity, school, and home. They also provide several key recommendations to address the problem. Read the report at http://www.literacytrust.org.uk/assets/0001/4056/Boys_Commission_Report.pdf

computer vs information literacy study

Computer Literacy Doesn't Mean Information Literacy
The next generation of college students, more wired than any other, might not be as good at Internet research as you may think. A new report says the *Google Generation* (those born after 1993, who can*t remember a time when the Internet wasn*t widely available) may be computer literate. But that doesn't make them information literate.
Some of the key problems the study found include:
*Young people don*t develop good search strategies to find quality
information.
*They might find information on the Internet quickly, but they
don*t know how to evaluate the quality of what they find.
*They don*t understand what the Internet really is: a vast network
with many different content providers.
The report details the implications of these problems for library
professionals. It says library resources should be more unified with
Internet tools like Google, and adapt to the changing ways younger
generations gather information.
Joint Information Systems Committee. (2007). Information Behaviour of the Researcher of the Future. Bristol: Author.
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/programmes/reppres/gg_final_keynote_11012008.pdf