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Show CARRY LIBRARIES TO RURALPEOPLE "Book Automobiles" Becoming Be-coming Popular in Various Vari-ous Sections of Cot.Vy. (Prepared br the United sint.-j D-eartmfnl u AKricwtlur,-.) "Book automobiles'' hae made books available to rural communities not wilhin eaxy reach of city or town libraries. In I.os Angeles, Calif., about in; i,i .ii") i ou nl ry people, living out - '.dc of Los Angeles and 1.1 other cities having libraries, are supplied Willi books from the county library. Two book automobiles auto-mobiles make daily trips averaging 1D0 miles each between the central library anil ocr :;' branches located in coin muniliis and mIiooIs. These aiilomo I biles have covered delivery-type hollies containing shehes for several hundred hooks and are usually driven by a librarian. li-brarian. The most dislant branch Is IP! miles from the central library. In l'.iirlin:;lon county, N. J., the county library Includes a staff of four people and a central building, with R'-"' branches in stores, grange balls, and farm homes. This library di-.lribuies by "book automobile" led only books, j but pictures, lilms. and phonographic 1 records. At each branch the number I of books varies from M) lo l.min. changeable monthly. Ill Coahoma county, Ml.s., which has a population of only ll.oll, about I did books are dk lribiited daily lo va-j va-j rlous branches In the county. 'This I library service Is nnilnlalned by a con- tract with the Clarksdale (Mis-.) library li-brary tit $1.1)1)0 a year. There are several hundred county libraries of various kinds In the United Unit-ed Slates, mosl of which have been established by popular vole. Some of these are inalnlalned through their connection with u city library In the same county and sonic' are separate county libraries supported by small county lax. |