Camels help Provide Library Services in Kenya

Gary Price passed along This One on the Camel Mobile Libraries in Kenya. This service was launched in 1996 with 3 camels and had been expanded to 6 camels by the year 2001. It operates from a static branch of the Kenya National Library Service (KNLS) in Garissa, located in the North Eastern Province, mainly serving the geographically isolated pastoralists in these areas.