Thinking Outside the Book: Community Engagement with Rural Libraries
A listening tour was conducted with staff and stakeholders in each of twenty public libraries in the eleven-county Uplands region in order to learn about immediate and long-term goals in the areas of public access, services provided, collection development, and community engagement. With information gathered from a user survey distributed to the communities, the project provided individual libraries with 1) tailored recommendations for user and library discovery of attainable resources and services, 2) comprehensive research resources and platforms compiled with sustainably accessible avenues and tailored specifically to the community's needs and interests, and 3) sustainable facilitation of community programming.
Details
- Status:
- Completed
- Start date:
- 10/1/2019
- Close date:
- 12/31/2020
- Focus areas:
- Quality of Place
- IU faculty and staff:
- Emily Alford, Adrian Starnes, Leanne Nay, Nicholae Cline, Monique Threatt
- Partners:
- Bedford Public Library, Bloomfield-Eastern Greene County Public Library, Brown County Public Library, Crawford County Public Library, Herman B. Wells Library, Huntingburg Public Library, IU Luddy School of Informatics Computing and Engineering, Jasper-Dubois County Contractual Public Library, Linton Public Library, Loogootee Public Library, Monroe County Public Library, Odon Winklepleck Public Library, Orleans Town & Township Public Library, Paoli Public Library, Salem-Washington Township Public Library, Shoals Public Library, Washington Carnegie Public Library, Worthington Jefferson Township Public Library
- More info:
- N/A
- Counties:
- Brown
Crawford
Daviess
Dubois
Greene
Lawrence
Martin
Monroe
Orange
Owen
Washington