Thursday, September 18, 2014

Proxy Server Outage

Hello WesternU Community,

Tomorrow (9/19/14) during IT's monthly maintenance window, the Library Proxy server will be receiving an extended update. Access to Library Electronic Resources is expected to be intermittently unavailable during 6pm to 8pm PST for this maintenance.

Thank you for your patience while our services are improved!

Thursday, September 4, 2014

Mobile Technology Fact Sheet


The Pew Research Center recently published a Fact Sheet on mobile usage from their 2014 Internet Project Survey. As usual there are some very interesting statistics that have come to light here are just a few:



  • More Hispanics (92%) own cell phones than White (90%) or African Americans (90%) 
  • There is only a 14% difference in cell phone ownership between people who earn less than $30,000 (84%) and those that earn $75,000+ (98%)
  • 63% of cell phone adult owners used their phones to access the internet
  • More than half of smartphone owners have either uninstalled or not installed an app due to privacy concerns
Here is the URL to the fact sheet http://www.pewinternet.org/fact-sheets/mobile-technology-fact-sheet/ and search for more interesting mobile usage data.