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Author:   Brian Real (Calvert Library, USA)
Publisher:   Emerald Publishing Limited
Imprint:   Emerald Publishing Limited
Volume:   43
ISBN:  

9781787431126

ISBN 10:   1787431126
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   17 November 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction - Rural Public Libraries in Academic and Political Contexts; Brian Real  2. Rural Libraries and the Human Right to Internet Access; Claire Petri   3. Rural Public Libraries in America: Continuing and Impending Challenges; Brian Real and Norman Rose  4. Exploring Rural Public Library Assets for Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD); Karen Miller  5. A Gap Analysis of the Perspectives of Small Businesses and Rural Librarians in Tennessee: Developments towards a Blueprint for a Public Library Small Business Toolkit; Bharat Mehra, Bradley Wade Bishop, and Robert P. Partee II  6. Rural Librarians as Change Agents in the 21st Century: Applying Community Informatics in the Southern and Central Appalachian Region to Further ICT Literacy Training; Bharat Mehra, Vandana Singh, Natasha Hollenbach, and Robert P. Partee II  7. Defining Community Archives within Rural South Carolina; Travis L. Wagner and Bobbie Bischoff  8. Exhibiting America: Moving Image Archives and Rural or Small Libraries; Jennifer L. Jenkins  9. Rural and Small Libraries: The Tribal Experience; Jennifer L. Jenkins, Guillermo Quiroga, Kari Quiballo, Herman A. Peterson, and Rhiannon Sorrell

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Scholars of library and information science explore some problems particular to rural and small public libraries and suggest some solutions to them. Their topics include rural libraries and the human right to internet access, exploring rural public library assets for asset-based community development, a gap analysis of the perspectives of small businesses and rural librarians in Tennessee: developments toward a blueprint for a public library small business toolkit, exhibiting America: moving-image archives and rural or small libraries, and rural and small libraries: the tribal experience.--Annotation (c)2018 (protoview.com)

Scholars of library and information science explore some problems particular to rural and small public libraries and suggest some solutions to them. Their topics include rural libraries and the human right to internet access, exploring rural public library assets for asset-based community development, a gap analysis of the perspectives of small businesses and rural librarians in Tennessee: developments toward a blueprint for a public library small business toolkit, exhibiting America: moving-image archives and rural or small libraries, and rural and small libraries: the tribal experience. -- Annotation (c)2018 * (protoview.com) *

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