xtreme bookmobile @ DC Public
The DC library system is rolling out its Xtreme Mobile library as a stopgap measure while they get new library facilities opened in places in the District with no library service. It’s a neat idea, but...
View ArticleLibrarians on the Internet Bookmobile
Many of us have a bookmobile fetish. I know I do. I was heavy in negotiations with the Internet Archive to get to drive their bookmobile around NH/VT with Casey this Summer but life intervened and it...
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bookmobiles — dying out?
It’s Banned Books Week and I’ve been discussing issues of access. Today the Boston Globe has this alternatingly irritating and sweet article this week Bookmobiles’ final chapter?. Forgetting for a...
View Articlebiblioburro!
Only the New York Times would call the act of getting books to people that don’t have them using locally appropriate technology “whimsical.” Here is the story of Luis Soriano and his Colombian...
View Articlebiblioburro movie now available
Remember how much everyone loved the biblioburro story? Now there’s a small movie about Luis Soriano that you can watch and share. Watch this video at Ayoka Productions For the past ten years, Luis...
View Articlewhat can you do with an old bookmobile?
If you’re Tom Corwin you buy it and plan a road trip with authors talking about books that changed their lives. Oh, and make a movie about it. Latest is Daniel Handler (author of the Lemony Snicket...
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