Bookmobile
A bookmobile is a mobile library. Today, it usually is a bus, that is designed like a library. Usually, these mobiles have a fixed schedule. They serve the same stops, all the time. Often, these bookmobiles stop at schools: The idea is to incite children to read books, to improve their reading skills. Usually, they also allow to pre-order certain books. The first such libraries date from the 19th century.
In 1833, the Brothers Harper started with several identical collections, that toured around the united states. The brothers also published Harper’s Weekly. Their library was called "American School Library". They started in 1839. Probably the last complete set of these books is at the National Museum of American History.
In 1857, the monthly journal t The British Workman reported on a library that regularly served 8 villages in Cumbria. George Moore, a merchant and philantropist ran thiis libraary, to "serve good literature to the people in the countryside."
In 1905, there was such a libnrary with a horse-drawn carriage in Maryland.
Bookmobile Media
The Perambulating Library of 1859 in Warrington, England
A "book mobile" serving children in Blount County, Tennessee, United States, in 1943
Photograph of Mrs. Asbell, a housewife with an invalid husband, coming out to meet the Athens Regional Library bookmobile in Athens, Georgia, September 1948.
1951 video of a "bibliobus" serving small villages in the Netherlands
2016 video of a "bibliobús" serving small towns in Catalonia
Mobile Idea Store, London, 2008
Cape May County Library bookmobile in Cape May Court House, New Jersey
Lincolnshire mobile library covering small villages in this English county
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