Library fetes century of bookmobile’s reach

Anonymous Patron writes “baltimoresun.com on Mary Titcomb who One hundred years ago, invented the bookmobile by installing bookshelves on a horse-drawn wagon and sending it out to the rural reaches of Washington County, where Titcomb was the library director.
At a birthday party for the bookmobile yesterday, Washington County Free Library Director Mary C. Baykan called Titcomb a visionary. Library patrons ate free cake and gazed at photographs of the vehicle’s evolution from a humble buggy with 200 volumes to a full-sized bus carrying 4,000.”

April 13, 2005 by Uncategorized 1

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  1. Bibliofuture says:
    April 13, 2005 at 2:33 am

    Reminder
    This line invented the bookmobile by installing bookshelves on a horse-drawn wagon and sending it out to the rural reaches of Washington County reminded me of this book Down Cut Shin Creek: The Pack Horse Librarians of Kentucky

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