diff --git a/docs/source/index.rst b/docs/source/index.rst
index b5f1d17ccc..26ec65d001 100644
--- a/docs/source/index.rst
+++ b/docs/source/index.rst
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ rustworkx Documentation
 
 .. note::
 
-    The project has been renamed to **rustworkx**. You can still use the legavcy
+    The project has been renamed to **rustworkx**. You can still use the legacy
     retworkx name for now but starting in the 1.0.0 release the retworkx name
     will no longer be supported.
 
@@ -35,6 +35,25 @@ MacOS on x86_64, and arm64, and Windows 32bit and 64bit systems. However, if
 you are not running on one of these platforms, you will need a rust compiler
 to install rustworkx.
 
+rustworkx-core
+--------------
+
+In addition to the Python library, as part of rustworkx a standalone Rust library
+is also included. This library provides a generic interface for Rust users
+that wish to use the same graph algorithm implementations exposed in the Python
+library. This library, rustworkx-core, is used to build the Python rustworkx
+library but can be used for any Rust application that needs the same graph
+functionality that rustworkx provides.
+
+You can find more details on rustworkx-core here:
+
+https://crates.io/crates/rustworkx-core
+
+and the documentation for the library is hosted here:
+
+https://docs.rs/rustworkx-core/0.13.0/rustworkx_core/
+
+
 Project history
 ---------------
 
diff --git a/rustworkx-core/README.md b/rustworkx-core/README.md
index c4647fff48..26487b1063 100644
--- a/rustworkx-core/README.md
+++ b/rustworkx-core/README.md
@@ -7,7 +7,12 @@
 > If you're using retworkx-core 0.11.0 you will need to change your requirement
 > and use statements to use the new crate name
 
-This crate contains the rust library rustworkx-core. This library is part of the
+rustworkx-core is a graph algorithm library that is built on top of
+[petgraph](https://github.com/petgraph/petgraph). It offers additional
+algorithms and functionality on top of the core data structures offered in
+the petgraph library.
+
+This crate contains the Rust library rustworkx-core. This library is part of the
 rustworkx project. However while the larger rustworkx project is a Python library
 that offers a general purpose high performance graph library written in Rust,
 rustworkx-core is a pure rust library that offers a stable rust API for any
@@ -18,7 +23,7 @@ At it's core rustworkx is built on top of the
 Python layer. However, many of the algorithms (and to a lesser extent data
 structures) needed for rustworkx are not available in petgraph. For places
 where these algorithms are implemented in a generic way the rustworkx-core
-crate exposes it for rust users.
+crate exposes it for Rust users.
 
 ## Usage