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Show 4AAiV-J lr A ' - 1 'f , ) A, a- - ' - - , a 1 v - ,1 a A , - 1 1 i- 7I- A, i ' - ' JZ"" H 1 a , - A Traveling Book Wagon Sent Out From Elkhart (Ind.) Public Library to Carry Books to the Farm Families It Is One of the Six Such Wheel Libraries in the State. There are some few things that are denied (he farmer's family, simply because be lives out in the country mid gels his mail out of a It. D. mail box, ralher than from a uniformed uni-formed losliuan. Ono of the most lamenlable of (hese is Hie public library. And the public library Is perhaps one of the things that the boy and girl on the farm need more than anything else. The public library commission of Indiana is trying to take their libraries li-braries into the counlry and have (it-led (it-led up six "traveling libraries'' which travel through the country with an assortment of books for farm folk. The first of these wagons was put Into operation at I'lainlield in 11)15. Since lhat time live others have be gun to take the books from the town libraries into the country. Thirteen counties in the state are covered by library syslems with stations established estab-lished in local communities of the county. In all there are liOO of the 1 .0(h) township units served, from the town centers. This service covers more than two-thirds of the population popula-tion of the state and one-third of the purely rural population. While Indiana has done much to develop the (raveling library system and to improve its service it cannot claim credit for being first to get the idea. Kural delivery service from town libraries started in Hagerslown. Md., where the book wagons have been serving Washington county for 20 years. |