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: Rural libraries.; Small libraries.; Public libraries.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781787431119; 9781787432536
• ISSN: 0065-2830 ;
• DOI: 10.1108/S0065-2830201743
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 223 pages).

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...