The field of LIS continues to face a vexing paradox. Its longstanding ideal of and
concomitant commitment to serving diverse communities and users equally has failed to …

According to the American Library Association (ALA), organizational sustainability requires
social equity, and serving diverse populations is mandated in the ALA Library Bill of Rights …

Community engagement in rural libraries receives little focus and is an overlooked area of
research. In this article, we report exemplars of agriculture-based community engagement in …

The 2016 presidential election in the United States was unprecedented in the extent of bitter
divisiveness between the candidates' campaigns, the complex factors attributed to the …

The purpose of this qualitative study is to explore how public libraries assist small
businesses in rural communities in the state of Tennessee in the United States. Tennessee's …

This article documents scenarios or narratives of health engagement experiences in rural
libraries based on qualitative analysis of feedback collected from 15 rural librarians in the …

This article argues for the usefulness of experiential learning as a vehicle for democratic
civic engagement in North American library and information science programs. First, we …

Focusing on information services to marginalized urban communities in the United States
between 1940 and 1975, this paper argues that African American librarians played …

Purpose This chapter discusses the application of community informatics (CI) principles in
the rural Southern and Central Appalachian (SCA) region to further the teaching of …

Rural libraries are central hubs for their communities and for sharing knowledge. For these
reasons, they are an essential component of community science literacy. As part of the …