Happy National Bookmobile Day! For this occasion I've selected some bookmobile websites for your enjoyment. The image above is of the cover of a large brochure put out by the Gerstenslager company in the 1970s. According to the inside copy, "This book has been written and printed with one basic purpose...to help the professional librarian and library board member plan and develop a highly effective bookmobile...one that completely fills the need, both of basics of body style, size and book-carrying capacity." I picked it up at an ALA conference.
The American Library Association's National Bookmobile Day webpage
American Libraries Magazine's Pinterest Bookmobiles Image Collection
The Library History Buff's Tribute to Bookmobiles
Bookmobiles: A History
Bookmobiles Parnassus on Wheels (Flickr Group)
Palmer School of Library and Information Science Bookmobile website
The First Bookmobile, WHILBR webpage
Wisconsin Library Heritage Center Bookmobile webpage
Bookmobiles on Postage Stamps
Association of Bookmobiles and Outreach Services (ABOS) website
Google Bookmobile Image Search
2 comments:
I love your blog! I thought you might get a kick out of my blog post on bookmobile's in Los Angeles. I hope you don't mind that I linked to your bookmobile page.
http://lalibrarytour.blogspot.com/2012/04/bookmobiles-in-los-angeles.html
Keep up the great work!
Tiffney Sanford
Tiffney,
Thanks for sharing the link to your blog post on bookmobiles in Los Angeles. Nice post. Thanks also for linking to my site.
Larry
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