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@@ -119,10 +119,8 @@ The table below lists the core parts of the project:
 | [runtime](src/runtime) | core | Main component run by a container manager and providing a containerd shimv2 runtime implementation. |
 | [runtime-rs](src/runtime-rs) | core | The Rust version runtime. |
 | [agent](src/agent) | core | Management process running inside the virtual machine / POD that sets up the container environment. |
-| [libraries](src/libs) | core | Library crates shared by multiple Kata Container components or published to [`crates.io`](https://crates.io/index.html) |
 | [`dragonball`](src/dragonball) | core | An optional built-in VMM brings out-of-the-box Kata Containers experience with optimizations on container workloads |
 | [documentation](docs) | documentation | Documentation common to all components (such as design and install documentation). |
-| [libraries](src/libs) | core | Library crates shared by multiple Kata Container components or published to [`crates.io`](https://crates.io/index.html) |
 | [tests](https://github.com/kata-containers/tests) | tests | Excludes unit tests which live with the main code. |
 
 ### Additional components
diff --git a/src/runtime-rs/README.md b/src/runtime-rs/README.md
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@@ -97,6 +97,10 @@ Currently, only built-in `Dragonball` has been implemented.
 
 Persist defines traits and functions to help different components save state to disk and load state from disk.
 
+### helper libraries
+
+Some helper libraries are maintained in [the library directory](../libs) so that they can be shared with other rust components.
+
 ## Build and install
 
 ```bash