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Rural Library Service
Date created: 2018-05-31 08:33 PM | Last Updated: 2024-04-05 05:38 PM
Identifier: DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/WB56G
Category: Project
Description: We ask, are rural libraries a component of social wellbeing in resource poor geographies? If so, when they are successful, what replicable practices do they employ?
Librarians serving rural communities work against trends of decline; people, human service agencies, and government offices all have dwindling presence in rural centers. These communities are faced, additionally, with education and literacy gaps that exacerbate technology gaps (Mehra, 2017). Peer-reviewed information that might help rural libraries address social wellbeing is largely inaccessible …