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The Relevance of Bookmobiles and Mobile Libraries in 2018

Submitted by Blake on August 14, 2018 - 8:50pm
Fast forward thirty years. The magic of the bookmobile remains. But the magic has evolved. Whereas the bookmobile of my youth was a place for my imagination to run amok (and today’s bookmobiles still provide this outlet for all), bookmobiles today have changed the way a library connects to the people it serves. Bookmobiles today serve a more effectual purpose than before—but that is not to say bookmobiles of my youth were ineffectual. As a valued part of any library’s arsenal, bookmobiles today help to disseminate information, erase barriers, and equalize opportunity for all patrons—much like in the past, only in different guises today. Bookmobiles today have spawned other mobile outreach vehicles: vans, buses, campers, bicycles, and scooters; and it is within all these different vehicles that a new type of outreach has developed.
From The Relevance of Bookmobiles and Mobile Libraries in 2018 » Public Libraries Online
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The Bookmobile Interview From StoryCorps

Submitted by Blake on April 18, 2018 - 9:54am
Growing up in the 1960s, Storm Reyes lived and worked in migrant labor camps across Washington state. When she was 8 years old, she began working full-time picking fruit for under a dollar an hour. At StoryCorps, Storm shared stories of her difficult childhood with her son, Jeremy Hagquist, and remembers the day a bookmobile unexpectedly arrived, opening up new worlds and bringing hope.
From The Bookmobile – StoryCorps
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Bookstore on wheels turns heads in Baghdad

Submitted by birdie on April 19, 2017 - 12:31pm
BAGHDAD (AP) — The Iraqis guarding Baghdad’s many checkpoints, on the lookout for car bombs and convoys, don’t know what to make of Ali al-Moussawi when he pulls up in a truck displaying shelves of glossy books. The mobile bookstore is the latest in a series of efforts by the 25-year-old to share his passion for reading and revive a love for books in Baghdad, which was once the literary capital of the Muslim world but is now better known for bombs than poems.

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The Power of Mobile Libraries, a StoryCorps Animation: 'The Bookmobile'

Submitted by Blake on April 14, 2016 - 12:56pm
In "The Bookmobile," a StoryCorps project, a young Native American girl shares a tale of discovery.
From The Power of Mobile Libraries, a StoryCorps Animation: 'The Bookmobile' - CityLab
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Buffalo BookBike promotes reading, gives free books to kids

Submitted by Blake on April 13, 2016 - 10:26am
One woman has started her own effort to make sure more kids get their hands on books this summer. With help from local business Nickel City Cycles, she plans to hit the streets of Buffalo by bike and hand out free books along the way. Amy Ozay, who started the movement in the Queen City, moved to Buffalo from Cambridge, Massachusetts, where people gave out free books on bikes.
From Buffalo BookBike promotes reading, gives free books to kids | WGRZ.com
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OMG IT'S National Bookmobile Day!!!

Submitted by Blake on April 13, 2016 - 9:43am
National Bookmobile Day (Wednesday, April 13, 2016) celebrates our nation’s bookmobiles and the dedicated library professionals who provide this valuable and essential service to their communities every day. National Bookmobile Day is an opportunity for bookmobiles fans to make their support known—through thanking bookmobile staff, writing a letter or e-mail to their libraries, or voicing their support to community leaders. National Bookmobile Day is coordinated by the ALA Office for Diversity, Literacy and Outreach Services, the Association of Bookmobile and Outreach Services (ABOS), and the Association for Rural & Small Libraries (ARSL).
From National Bookmobile Day 2016 | Offices of the American Library Association
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Furs, Mounts, and Skulls at ARLIS, continued

Submitted by stevejzoo on November 6, 2015 - 6:43pm
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Following an initial story and slideshow in the Alaska Dispatch News, the Furs, Mounts, and Skulls Collection at ARLIS continued to attract media attention. NPR's morning edition interviewed ARLIS Librarian Celia Rozen.

Mobile library delivers books on horseback in rural Indonesia

Submitted by Blake on October 25, 2015 - 5:50pm

An Indonesian villager is encouraging rural children to read by delivering books with his free mobile library on the back of his favorite horse Luna.

Three times a week Ridwan Sururi, 42, travels with his "horse library" on the dirt tracks of Indonesia's Central Java Province to provide books for young readers in an area where libraries are rare and school resources are limited.

"The purpose of this library is to encourage reading. The reason why I used the horse is because, in my opinion, the horse attracts children," Sururi explained.

All of the books in the mobile library were given to him by friends and donors.

From Mobile library delivers books on horseback in rural Indonesia | Reuters

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Librarian Shares Her Love of Books with a Bike-powered Mobile Library

Submitted by Blake on October 6, 2015 - 12:25pm

In 2013, school librarian Alicia Tapia created Bibliobicicleta, a free, mobile library pulled by bike. Since then, Tapia and Bibliobicicleta have rolled up to San Francisco parks, farmers markets, museums, and beaches to distribute free books and help spread a love of reading.

From Librarian Shares Her Love of Books with a Bike-powered Mobile Library - Shareable

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Toronto library to roll out book-lending machine at Union Station

Submitted by Anonymous Patron (not verified) on August 6, 2015 - 12:28pm
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http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2015/08/05/toronto-library-to-roll-out-book-lending-machine-at-union-station.html Checking out books from the library is about to get easier for commuters. The Toronto Public Library hopes to roll out a book-lending machine at Union Station by the end of the year. If it’s successful, more could be on their way. The move is a novel idea aimed at making the library more accessible to Torontonians and broadening the number of users, which sits around 18.5 million annually.

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