The internet, cell phones, and other digital technologies have allowed people to have larger social networks, to participate in and learn from larger numbers of groups, to act in new ways to shape their world, and to gather, asses and act on information of all kinds from all kinds of "media." This marks a major shift in the social and civic lives of Americans that has big implications for libraries as they think about serving their communities. Lee will explore all these changes through the lens of the surveys and research of the Pew Internet & American Life Project.\n
"The academic-library market has been slow to embrace electronic monographs, he said, but lately interest has begun to surge. E-book sales at Blackwell's increased 216 percent in the 2007 fiscal year and 164 percent in the first six months of 2008. That's evidence that the e-book trade "has the potential to rebuild the monograph business," Mr. Nauman said."
