Rural Public Libraries and Digital Inclusion: Issues and Challenges.
Rural public libraries have been relatively understudied when compared to public libraries as a whole. Data are available to show that rural libraries lag behind their urban and suburban counterparts in technology service offerings, but the full meaning and effect of such disparities is unclear. The...
| Publicado en: | Information Technology & Libraries Vol. 33; no. 1; pp. 6 - 25 |
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American Library Association
Mar2014
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