---
title: "How Libraries Add Value to Communities (Video & Slides)"
description: "Lee Rainie looks at the value of libraries to their communities. (Now updated with video and slides.)"
date: "2011-03-23"
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/2011/03/23/how-libraries-add-value-to-communities-video-slides/"
categories:
  - "Libraries"
  - "Religion & Social Values"
tags:
  - "Libraries"
---

# How Libraries Add Value to Communities (Video & Slides)

The Net, smartphones, and other technologies have added to the way people can engage with so much to local communities and wider communities of interest. Yet, there are many gaps. Lee Rainie, Director of the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project, explores those gaps at the [Computers in Libraries](http://www.infotoday.com/cil2011/Program.asp) conference. He points to some findings of his Project that highlight areas where [libraries and information services](https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/Topics/Activities-and-Pursuits/Libraries.aspx) add value to the participants in their [communities](https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/Topics/Activities-and-Pursuits/Communities.aspx).

http://www.slideshare.net/PewInternet/how-libraries-add-value-cil-2011

Slides from his talk are available to view above, or to download here as a [Powerpoint](~/media/Files/Presentations/2011/Mar/2011-3.23.11-CIL-how-libraries-add-value.ppt) or [PDF](~/media/Files/Presentations/2011/Mar/2011-3.23.11-CIL-pdf-how-libraries-add-value.pdf).

You can watch this talk below or at: [http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/13511408](http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/13511408)

[http://www.ustream.tv/flash/viewer.swf](http://www.ustream.tv/flash/viewer.swf)