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Traveling Libraries

Under the leadership of Melvil Dewey, the State of New York initiated a state funded traveling library system in 1892. Traveling libraries were small rotating collections that provided a method for extending library service to rural areas. These small libraries usually from 30 to a hundred books were located in a post office, a store, or someone's home with a volunteer acting as the caretaker of the collection. In New York the collections stayed in one location for six months before they were rotated.

traveling libraries

Websites

• The Library History Buff
  Promoting the appreciation, enjoyment, and preservation of library history

Last updated by ann on Aug. 29, 2008

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