Library? Or Welcome Wagon, Day Care, Counseling and Job Center?

In Notus, Idaho, librarian Jo Ellen Ringer has created a community hub for the town’s citizens. Her answers to the Public Insight Network’s survey about the role of libraries in civic life show how deep-seated caring and a little creativity can address human issues way beyond the information needs of a rural community.

Read the PIN post at http://librarius.posterous.com/welcome-wagonjob-centerday-care-rural-librari

Home page photo by Patrick Hoesly

 

 

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