---
title: "The Future of Libraries"
description: "The seven questions libraries need to address as they consider future services and their role for their patrons and communities."
date: "2014-04-10"
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/2014/04/10/the-future-of-libraries/"
categories:
  - "Libraries"
---

# The Future of Libraries

Lee Rainie, Director of the Pew Research Center's Internet Project, runs through the seven questions libraries need to address as they consider future services and their role for their patrons and communities, at the Texas Library Association's [Annual Conference](http://www.txla.org/annual-conference). He describes how project research about the changing role of technology in people’s lives affects the kinds of issues librarians need to address as they experience the disruptions of technology change.