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As I was reading through the transcripts from the community interviews, it struck me how caring and supportive these small, rural communities seemed. Interviewees discussed how the community came together to help someone out in times of tragedy, how the offering of food or car rides to appointments in times of need was often a lifeline, how everyone looks out for one another. Sometimes the library was involved in offering support, sometimes the support was offered to the library, but what was discussed most was the community coming together to support one another.
I found the symbiotic relationship between the community members and the library to be quite interesting. Do communities where members naturally support one another also have a large amount of support for the library? Does the library offer the community as much support as the community gives them? What can libraries do to encourage that support and make connections between community members? These were all questions I pondered as I created this tool.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_text_separator title=”Tool: Assessing Community Support” border_width=”3″][vc_column_text][ipt_fsqm_form id=”92″][/vc_column_text][vc_text_separator title=”Evaluation: Assessing Community Support” border_width=”3″][vc_column_text][ipt_fsqm_form id=”93″][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
