The ALA recently released a survey of rural librarians with all kinds of interesting, enlightening and downright depressing comments and statistics.
As someone who willingly chose to work in a rural library as my first job over a city position, this survey also hits close to home
(although I do believe that the situation in Canada for salaries and
working conditions is much better than in the US for the most part.)
(via the always jam-packed ALA weekly e-newsletter which, unfortunately isn’t online)