#mobile libraries

[gwydionmisha]

Latest Trump cuts put summer reading, mobile libraries and local museums in jeopardy

Federal employees who work at a tiny agency that funds the nation's libraries and museums expect to be put on administrative leave soon

[threaded-in-feelings]

[biblio-gadabout]

Feeling nostalgic of childhood tuesday mornings when the book mobile stopped in my grandmas neighborhood...

[bookpatrol]

The Mongolian Children’s Mobile Library

photo by Jambyn Dashdondog/Mongolian Children’s Culture Foundation/Go Help

[viagginterstellari]

Mobile Library - Mumbay, 2013

[solitaryfossil]

For Remote Communities In Scotland's Outer Hebrides, Mobile Libraries Are A Lifeline

Library vans ply lonely roads and deliver books, including works in Gaelic, to hundreds of isolated residents. Seeing the mobile librarian is sometimes the only human contact they will have for days.

I want to go there.

[oupacademic]

Mobile libraries in Pakistan

Mobile libraries are having a moment, and at OUP Pakistan, we have our own! The rickshaw (or a tuk tuk as it is known in Southeast Asia) is painted with truck art, an indigenous form of brightly colored designs painted on cargo trucks in Pakistan, and converted into a mobile library. This rickshaw forms a part of the fleet of vehicles being used as Oxford Mobile Libraries, a project launched in 2012 as part of OUP Pakistan’s 60 years celebration.

The project aims to develop a library culture among the underprivileged children of Karachi, Pakistan and get them into the habit of borrowing, reading and caring for books. The mobile libraries visit schools in low income areas and students become members by paying a nominal amount as a one-time membership fee, which entitles them to borrow one book for a week. So far, this initiative has been helpful in instilling a reading habit amongst school children who have limited exposure to good quality books.

Photo Credit: Used with permission by Zehra Nasim.

[libraryjournal]

One old minibus and 1,300 books: the mobile library for refugees in Greece

A pair of volunteers set about providing to provide a quiet space to read and study, amid the upheaval and uncertainty that faces those who have fled their homes