Pew Internet received a $1.4 million grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to study the role of libraries in users’ lives and in their communities. Read their first report chronicling the adoption of e-readers and tablet computers and the rise of e-reading.
Over the course of the next two years, they will present "a series of reports examining technology adoption and use in libraries, patrons’ expectations, the “library of the future,” and how libraries fit into people’s lives in all sorts of ways." Read more here.
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