| About the Contributors | ix |
| Editors’ Introduction to the Advances in Librarianship Series Paul T. Jaeger and Caitlin Hesser | xv |
| 1 Introduction: Rural Public Libraries in Academic and Political Contexts Brian Real | 1 |
| 2 Rural Libraries and the Human Right to Internet Access Claire Petri | 13 |
| 3 Rural Public Libraries in America: Continuing and Impending Challenges Brian Real and R. Norman Rose | 37 |
| 4 Exploring Rural Public Library Assets for Asset-Based Community Development Karen Miller | 61 |
| 5 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 Bharat Mehra, Bradley Wade Bishop, and Robert P. Partee II | 97 |
| 6 Rural Librarians as Change Agents in the Twenty-First 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 | 123 |
| 7 Defining Community Archives within Rural South Carolina Travis L. Wagner and Bobbie Bischoff | 155 |
| 8 Exhibiting America: Moving Image Archives and Rural or Small Libraries Jennifer L. Jenkins | 181 |
| 9 Rural and Small Libraries: The Tribal Experience Jennifer L. Jenkins, Guillermo Quiroga (Yaqui), Kari Quiballo (Sioux), Herman A. Peterson (Diné), and Rhiannon Sorrell (Diné) | 203 |
| Index | 219 |
| About the Contributors | ix |
| Editors’ Introduction to the | xv |
| 1 Introduction: Rural Public Libraries in Academic and Political Contexts | 1 |
| 2 Rural Libraries and the Human Right to Internet Access | 13 |
| 3 Rural Public Libraries in America: Continuing and Impending Challenges | 37 |
| 4 Exploring Rural Public Library Assets for Asset-Based Community Development | 61 |
| 5 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 | 97 |
| 6 Rural Librarians as Change Agents in the Twenty-First Century: Applying Community Informatics in the Southern and Central Appalachian Region to Further ICT Literacy Training | 123 |
| 7 Defining Community Archives within Rural South Carolina | 155 |
| 8 Exhibiting America: Moving Image Archives and Rural or Small Libraries | 181 |
| 9 Rural and Small Libraries: The Tribal Experience | 203 |
| Index | 219 |
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