---
title: "The role of libraries in the digital age"
description: "This presentation was an overview of Pew Internet Project findings about the changing structure of information and communication in the digital age, the role that libraries play in helping people solve problems, and the broader roles that librarie..."
date: "2008-04-18"
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/2008/04/18/the-role-of-libraries-in-the-digital-age/"
categories:
  - "Emerging Technology"
  - "Libraries"
tags:
  - "Libraries"
  - "New Media Ecology"
---

# The role of libraries in the digital age

This presentation was an overview of Pew Internet Project findings about the changing structure of information and communication in the digital age, the role that libraries play in helping people solve problems, and the broader roles that libraries might fill in people's lives.

http://www.slideshare.net/PewInternet/the-role-of-libraries-in-a-networked-world-texas-lib-assn-final-ppt