Hope Decker

Director - Wayland Free Library

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Hope is the director of the Wayland Free Library in the beautiful finger lakes region of upstate New York. She is an enthusiastic fan of rural libraries and is dedicated to seeing libraries and their communities flourish.

We must be awake to the uniqueness to our own communities – awake to our individual and collective strengths.

Hope Decker

As a member of the research team, she interviewed over a hundred community members, is a practiced listener and facilitator, and guides our instructional ambitions.