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Weare, New Hampshire, a small town about 45 minutes from the state’s southern border with Massachusetts, the local newspaper is largely a one-man show. Michael Sullivan is de facto publisher and editor in chief as well as reporter, layout designer, crosswords creator, printer, and deliveryman. (The one thing he doesn’t do is photography.)
But Sullivan is quick to tell anyone who asks: he’s no journalist. Rather, he’s a librarian—just one who happens to run the only publication dedicated to covering his town and its 8,966 residents.
Sullivan considers stepping in when a local news outlet is missing part of the public library’s duties to serve its patrons
Sullivan is director of the Weare Public Library, where he—with some help from his fellow librarians—produces Weare in the World, a weekly publication that aims to fill part of the void left when the quarterly Weare Community News, shuttered in October 2016. “It wasn’t much of a newspaper to begin with, but when that thing closed down, it really left us with nothing,” says Sullivan. “The regional papers around here don’t pay attention to a little town like this, and the one local paper [The Goffstown News, a small weekly serving communities northwest of Manchester] that was covering us pulled back and stopped covering our area. We were left with no news outlets at all.”
A few months later, during Weare’s March Town Meeting season, locals were complaining that there wasn’t enough information to help them make decisions when electing local officials and passing budgets. That’s when, at a community meeting hosted at the library, one of the candidates running for town selectman turned to Sullivan and asked him what he, as town librarian, was going to do about it.
A week later, the first issue of Weare in the World appeared, providing election results alongside calendar listings for the Weare Middle School’s production of “Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka, the Musical” and a community spaghetti dinner at the local American Legion post.

A sign in Weare, New Hampshire reminds voters about the state's primary election. Weare's public library stepped in to produce a weekly paper after the town's only news source closed down in 2016 Brian Snyder/Reuters
Since then, the print publication—also posted weekly on the library’s website—has remained heavy on calendar listings and events coverage, but aims to keep the town informed about local politics as well as goings-on in the community. Sullivan considers stepping in when a local news outlet is missing part of the public library’s duties to serve its patrons: “We’re here. It’s not everything you want, but it fills a need. That’s really where libraries should be.”
Increasingly, libraries are playing a greater role in journalism, as journalists and librarians—long entwined by common goals, and facing similar challenges as their industries undergo rapid transformation in the digital age—find ways to collaborate. Some librarians help where news organizations are absent, in news deserts such as Weare, or have been decimated in recent years, such as in Longmont, Colorado, where locals are debating whether to launch a tax-funded “library district” that produces community news alongside operating the local library. Other librarians are teaming up with journalists to promote media literacy and tackle misinformation, develop community journalists, spur civic engagement, and even to take on reporting projects.
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