Lee Rainie is Director of the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project and former Managing Editor of U.S. News and World Report.
Lee Rainie described the latest findings of the Pew Internet Project about libraries and the new mix of services they are offering their patrons—and considering offering. He also discussed the implications for libraries of the Project’s research into how Americans use e-books and how patrons experience borrowing e-books from their public libraries. Lee will also [...]
Read More »More than eight in ten Americans ages 16-29 read a book in the past year, and six in ten used their local public library. Many say they are reading more in the era of digital content, especially on their mobile phones and on computers.
Read More »Lee Rainie, Director of the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, shared findings from a new report on e-book lending at libraries. He also discussed other research about the rise of e-books, their impact on people’s reading habits, and the way that library patrons are hoping to avail themselves of e-book borrowing. Finally, [...]
Read More »12% of e-book readers have borrowed an e-book from a library. Those who use libraries are pretty heavy readers, but most are not aware they can borrow e-books.
Read More »Director Lee Rainie gave the “Networked libraries” speech at the Biblionext conference in Rome, Italy
Read More »21% of Americans have read an e-book. The increasing availability of e-content is prompting some to read more than in the past and to prefer buying books to borrowing them.
Read More »The share of adults in the United States who own tablet computers nearly doubled from 10% to 19% between mid-December and early January and the same surge in growth also applied to e-book readers.
Read More »Director Lee Rainie gave a keynote address at the Internet Librarian conference that examined the potential role librarians can play in “learning communities” – both physical and virtual.
Read More »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.
Read More »Director Lee Rainie discusses technology and libraries at San Francisco Public Library.
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