In many rural areas, community colleges are the institutions primarily responsible for providing postsecondary educational opportunities. As a result, they are tasked with the challenging responsibility of expanding those opportunities, training a rural workforce, and building a healthy and inclusive community. Like their urban and suburban counterparts, rural community colleges often encounter the same problems of over enrollment or face the same challenges of meeting the educational needs of a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, and multi-lingual student population. Additionally, rural community colleges often must contend with chronic under-funding as well as the constant task of helping rural students overcome the barriers of distance and technology. From the rural community college perspective, the educational responsibilities and challenges may seem overwhelming at times. The citations in this annotated bibliography address many of the issues that face rural community colleges. Specifically, the material addresses the topics of student demographics, leadership and organizational culture, the "digital divide," as well as the results from the Rural Community College Initiative. For the community college administrator, who may serve some of the 2 million students studying in rural community colleges, the following articles are an ideal starting point for further personalized research.