Rural and small public libraries : challenges and opportunities

• Other Authors: Real, Brian (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2017.
• Series: Advances in librarianship, v. 43
• Subjects: veřejné knihovny > Spojené státy americké; místní knihovny > Spojené státy americké; malé knihovny > Spojené státy americké; public libraries > United States; local libraries > United States; small libraries > United States; kolektivní monografie; elektronické knihy; collective monographs; electronic books

Rural and small public libraries provide invaluable services to their communities. These information institutions operate in areas that, when compared to national averages, have poor broadband accessibility and weaker connection speeds, low home internet adoption rates, higher unemployment rates, an...