An Overview of Prior Research on Select Community Libraries
Advances in library and information science (ALIS) book series · 2013
This chapter presents an overview of some of the prior research done on select rural village libraries in Uganda, Ghana, and Burkina Faso not presented elsewhere in this book. This review is meant to provide a context for the ways in which researchers have sought to document the development and impact of these libraries over time. This review is not meant to be exhaustive – there may certainly be more work on the rural village library in Africa than is presented here. However, the aim of this chapter is simply to provide an overview of the topics being explored by researchers within this framework.