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Show CARRY LIBRARIES TO RURALPEOPLE "Book Automobiles" Becoming Be-coming Popular in Various Vari-ous Sections of Country. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) "Book automobiles" have made books available to rural communities not within easy reach of city or town libraries. In Los Angeles, Calif., about 409,000 country people, living outside of Los Angeles and 15 other cities having libraries, are supplied with books from the county library. Two book automobiles auto-mobiles make daily trips averaging 100 miles each between the central library and over 300 branches located in communities com-munities and. schools. These automobiles automo-biles have covered delivery-type bodies containing shelves for several hundred books and are usually driven by a librarian. li-brarian. The most distant branch ls 110 miles from the central library. In Burlington county, N. J., the county library includes a staff of four people and a central building, with 135 branches in stores, grange halls, and farm homes. This library distributes by "book automobile" not only books, but pictures, films, and phonographic records. At each branch the number of books varies from 50 to 1,000, changeable monthly. In Coahoma county, Miss., which has a population of only 41,511, about "GOO books are distributed daily to va- j rious branches In the county. This I library service is maintained by a contract con-tract with the Clarksdale (Miss.) library li-brary at $-1,000 a year. There are several hundred county libraries of various kinds in the United Unit-ed States, most of which have been established by popular vote. Some of these are maintained through their connection with a city library In the same county and some are separate county libraries supported by a small county tax. |
