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  • Director’s Brief: The Rural Library as Economic Development Center

    When the local economy fails, libraries fail. When libraries facilitate conversations about economic development, everyone in the community has an opportunity to speak up, to learn, and to create an economically sustainable community based upon local, shared, values. Libraries provide a neutral space for fostering community-wide conversations about shared values, local resources and knowledge bases, to…