In the past decade, there has been a sharp increase in the number of youth using the internet as a mean of educational research. But does this mean death for brick and mortar libraries? Not at all!

In a recent joint study with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Pew Internet and American Life Project, they found that surprisingly the youngest adults are the heaviest library users with twenty one percent of Americans ...   more »

The internet has become a vital educational resource for America’s youth. A Pew Internet and American Life Project Study reports that 94 percent of online youth say they use the internet for school research, 71 percent of online teenagers cited the internet as the source they relied on the most in completing projects and 78 percent claim the internet helps them with school work.

Stuck on a homework assignment? Now students are using the internet ...   more »