LISNews: Librarian News

Anonymous Patron writes "I just love Bookmobile Stories. This one is from Millville, Utah, and covers Donald Penrod, who, Five years after retiring as Box Elder County's bookmobile librarian is busier than ever. Now he is making the rounds through hundreds of Utah neighborhoods on mobile-library routes in Box Elder, Cache, Duchesne, Rich, Summit, Tooele and Utah counties. He is a substitute bookmobile driver. And the routes are less demanding than when he was the librarian."

Two anonymous donors made it possible for the Great Falls (MT) Public Library Bookmobile to stay on the road after a county budget cut took it out of commission. It seems that "Anonymous" has done a great deal to keep this library afloat in the past decade, as the bookmobile itself was purchased with an anonymous donation in 1998. '...that donation carried a condition that government not cut back on its library funding because of the donation, and that the library establish an equipment fund to avoid the same problem in the future.' More from the Great Falls Tribune.

An Anonymous Patron writes "Good News Out Of Malaysia where National Semiconductor recently donated an e-mobile library worth RM340,000 to the Malacca Public Library Corporation as part of the company's Community Care Programme aimed at promoting the reading habit and improving Internet access among the rural communities in Malacca. "

Rich writes "Monday's Boston Globe reports that bookmobiles in Massachusetts are facing extinction.
Boston.com news has the story."
". . . some residents and librarians argue that it's important to preserve the bookmobile -- particularly in communities where it provides the only access to books for the disabled, day-care centers, and shut-in elderly residents.
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