Rural Public Librarianship

By: Jennifer Thiele

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Hardcover | 11 December 2025

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176 Pages

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22.86 x 15.24 x 2.54

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This book highlights the challenges that small and rural libraries experience and offers best practices to contend with them with limited resources.

Nearly 50% of libraries in the United States are considered small or rural. These libraries face unique challenges and issues that continue to manifest as libraries contend with the systematic problem of access to information.

These challenges include:
- Financial barriers such as the drying up of recent federal and local grant funds for both rural municipalities and public libraries specifically.
- Broadband accessibility for those in rural areas
- The shift from face to face to virtual programs.
- Ebook access
- Mobile hotspot circulation and community access points outside the library
- Book challenges and a changing political environment
How can librarians address these accessibility issues? This book highlights these challenges and offers best practices to contend with them given the limited resources rural libraries have access to.

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