In the era of Web 2.0, individuals and organizations have gone beyond simply being findable to being intimately knowable. These digital footprints are blazing trails and stirring up issues about how we manage our own online identities and those of…
There is a demographically diverse group of Americans who already take advantage of mobile acess to data and information. With “cloud computing” on the horizon as the next evolution in mobile access, the make-up of the population of mobile users offe…
Many Americans are jumping into the participatory Web without considering all the implications. If nothing really bad has happened to someone, they tend neither to worry about their personal information nor to take steps to limit the amount of infor…
Research conducted by The Pew Internet & American Life Project examines the growing role of technology in our lives, our changing expectations about how to find and use information, and the impact younger generations will have on libraries and oth…
This presentation covers a variety of reports from the Pew Internet Project that are particularly relevant to librarians and those who provide information services.
A presentation on how librarians can function in a world where the internet, cell phones, gaming consoles, MP3 players, and other digital gadgets are part of everyday life.
Where do you turn when you have a problem? Family and friends? Experts? Internet searches? Libraries? We asked those and a variety of other questions on a recent survey and found some surprising things.