IMAGES OF MOBILE LIBRARIES
G'day folks,
These days, we can order almost any book in
the world straight to our doorstep or simply download them to devices
like kindle. This would definitely come in handy in quarantine.
But it
wasn’t always so. Just a few decades ago, people who lived in villages
or remote areas without a library depended on bookmobiles. The mission
of these circulating libraries was to make the printed word accessible
to everyone.
One of the earliest recorded bookmobiles was the Perambulating Library
in Warrington, England 1859. It was a horse-drawn cart and lent about
12,000 books during its first year of service.
Bookmobiles did not
appear in the US until the early 1900s. Eventually, they were motorized
and reached the height of their popularity in the mid-20th century, when
they became an everyday part of American life.
Take a look at these nostalgic images of circulating libraries, that
will send you back to a time when the world operated much differently.
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Clancy's comment: Yep, back in the days when people loved and respected books, not mobile phones.
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