Bibliograph

Library on wheels, Mary Lemist Titcomb and America's first bookmobile, Sharlee Glenn

Type

Label

Library on wheels, Mary Lemist Titcomb and America's first bookmobile, Sharlee Glenn

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 46-48) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Library on wheels

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Oclc number

1030992512

Responsibility statement

Sharlee Glenn

Sub title

Mary Lemist Titcomb and America's first bookmobile

Summary

--everyone should have access to the library₇not just adults and those who lived in town. Realizing its limitations and inability to reach the county's 25,000 rural residents, including farmers and their families, Titcomb set about to change the library system forever with the introduction of book-deposit stations throughout the country, a children's room in the library, and her most revolutionary idea of all₇a horse-drawn Book Wagon. Soon book wagons were appearing in other parts of the country, and by 1922, the book wagon idea had received widespread support. The bookmobile was born!

Target audience

juvenile

Classification