Tools for the Good Life

Part of ARSL Conference 2021 and LIVE:

What are your personal strengths? What are your community’s aspirations? How does the library fit in with those two things? Using a set of practical tools developed and tested by rural librarians, you will uncover new ways to think about your library and community in this highly interactive and individualized session. The tools are based on findings from the Rural Library and Social Wellbeing research project. It found that little libraries have a big impact on the good life in ways that are beautifully unique to each individual rural community. In honoring your community’s strengths, potential, and wisdom, your library can facilitate the good life.

Hope Decker, Director, Wayland Free Library, NY