The St. Louis Public Library earned a Third-Place ranking in the Library Category of the 2012 America’s Most Literate Cities study conducted by Central Connecticut State University. This marks the ninth straight year that the city’s library services have ranked in the top four among urban libraries in the U.S. (and the eighth time in the last nine years they have finished in the top three).
The study focuses on cities with populations greater than 250,000. St. Louis again ranked in the Top 10 with a 9th place overall literacy score. The literacy study focuses on five key indicators in addition to library resources: newspaper circulation, number of bookstores, periodical publishing resources, educational attainment, and Internet resources.
To learn more about the America’s Most Literate Cities study, visit http://www.ccsu.edu/page.cfm?p=15616.