National Bookmobile Day | Coming Soon

Posted March 22, 2012 by fox32

Brought to you by the American Library Association, the Association of Bookmobile and Outreach Service, and the Association of Rural and Small Libraries comes the (third?) annual National Bookmobile Day -April 11, 2010.
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 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.
Vintage photos below via the flickr of the Harris Country Public Library, TX.