---
title: "Libraries Solve Problems"
description: "This presentation focuses on the Project's findings about the role of libraries when Americans are trying to solve problems."
date: "2008-04-07"
authors:
  - name: "Lee Rainie"
    job_title: "Former Director, Internet and Technology Research"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/lee-rainie/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2008/04/07/libraries-solve-problems/"
categories:
  - "Emerging Technology"
  - "Libraries"
  - "Online Search"
tags:
  - "Decision Making"
  - "Libraries"
  - "Search"
---

# Libraries Solve Problems

This presentation is an overview of recent data from the Pew Internet & American Life Project about internet use and Web 2.0 activities. It also focuses on the Project's findings about the role of libraries when Americans are trying to solve problems.