Asotin County Library

Asotin County Library will engage in a planning project to test whether the processes and tools developed from the Asotin County Open Data Project (IMLS Accelerating Promising Practices, LG-28-19-0229-19), which focused on the procurement and publishing of local open data, can be used by other small and/or rural libraries to successfully publish open data. The goal is to develop an Open Data Publishing Toolkit in partnership with selected small public libraries that enables small libraries to take an open data leadership role in their communities. The libraries involved in this project will offer their communities and local governments the benefits of having access to local open government data. Asotin County Library will partner with small library cohorts of two to three libraries each in two regions of the United States. Using the Data Equity for Main Street curriculum, the project team will train key library staff in open data practices. Each cohort will be involved with educating patrons in understanding and using open data; gathering and publishing locally relevant open data as determined by the libraries using tools such as focus groups and questionnaires; and finding avenues for spreading open data practices in their regions.