Outreach Services - Did You Know?

New Deal bookmobiles

In the 1930s, with money for books scarce, patrons went to great lengths to get hold of reading matter. Here, readers on Bayou de large, Louisiana, are poling their way to meet the book wagon.

bookmobiles, Outreach, traveling libraries

Websites

• New Deal Network

Websites

• The Bookmobile
  history of the bookmobile

Last updated by auerbachl on Aug. 11, 2009

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