Bookmobiles are currently one of the most expensive services of many public libraries so inevitably the first to be chopped when budgets are cut. Just a plain old fact there... and a mobile library may be slightly anachronistic for some, i.e. those communities that have the internets. My 2cents; bookmobiles fulfill several needs and beyond that are a fantastic visual reminder of the mission of a library -to connect people to information. 10e will be going bookmobile-centric until Wednesday... Older/related; That Rural Librarian Look.
Photos below via the flickr of the Harris Country Public Library, TX.
2 comments:
As a kid growing up in Lake Wobegon I loved the bookmobile. My tiny Catholic School had a small library, but nothing like the bookmobile which brought new books every two weeks, espeically during the summer months. Best of all, you could request specific books or books on a given topic. It will be a sad day when these are all gone. As a kid in a small town the bookmobile was a huge outlet to a larger world. The web can get serve part of this need, but until ebooks are common there is no substitute for a real book.
book mobiles are awesome. some of my first time ever looking through photography books were in the back of a book mobile parked in front of my house. great job.
foster
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