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Tag Archives: Bookmobiles
Word on the Street (Books)
“Word on the Street Books is more than a bookstore—it’s a book truck bringing joy to Livermore California, and the greater San Francisco Bay Area. Housed in a classic 1973 Steyr Puch Haflinger, our book truck is a unique sight … Continue reading
Peace, Love & Books
If you are a regular visitor here, then you know that I love an inspiring narrative about the power of literature and reading. For Californian Davina Agudelo-Ferreira, her personal story about the life-changing influence of the written word is especially … Continue reading
Bookmobiles are the best
Open Books, a nonprofit bookstore and literacy organization in Chicago, Ill., has launched a bookmobile to bring free books to under-served communities. The Open Books Mobile made its debut on June 8 during the nonprofit’s annual Slide into Summer event, which … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Bookstore Tourism, USA
Tagged Bookmobiles, Bookstore Tourism, Chicago, literacy
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Reading Evangelists
Retired Montana schoolteacher Rita has been spreading her love of reading across the U.S. for the last eight years by traveling coast-to-coast in her van-turned-mobile bookstore! Rita shares what inspired her to make a mobile bookstore, and explains how she … Continue reading
Lord of Books
José Alberto Gutiérrez is a former trash collector from Bogotá, Colombia, who spent over 20 years collecting books discarded by residents during his night shifts. Gutiérrez together with his family created a home library called ‘La Fuerza de las Palabras’ … Continue reading
Goin’ Mobile beep, beep
If you land on TBTP on a regular basis, you know how I feel about bookmobiles, traveling libraries, and itinerant bookstores. So, you won’t be surprised by these two stories about mobile booksellers from opposite sides of the globe. I … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Bookstore Tourism, USA
Tagged Bookmobiles, Bookselling, crowdfunding, New Zealand, NYC
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Going Mobile
The staff of the Adirondack Center for Writing (ACW) in upstate New York partnered with the Book Nook in Saranac Lake, The Bookstore Plus in Lake Placid, TREES Adirondack Gifts & Books in Bolton Landing to visit small communities throughout the region that don’t … Continue reading
Bookmobile with an Italian accent
UNA NUOVA INIZIATIVA PER LA DIFFUSIONE DEL LIBRO proclaims the title at the top of the photo, or, in English, A New Initiative for Distributing Books. The early 1920s bookmobile was actually publisher’s method of selling books to the public, not … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Europe, History
Tagged Bookmobiles, Bookselling, Firenze, Florence, Italy
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Finding refuge in books
ECHO (Education.Community.Hope.Opportunity) is an organisation dedicated to fostering community and education initiatives in Greek refugee camps. The ECHO Refugee Library is their flagship project. They hope to transform the sites in which they work from places of stagnancy and waiting, … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Europe, Libraries, Middle East
Tagged Bookmobiles, Greece, refugees
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NYC Bookwagons Are Coming Back
Starting this summer, the New York Public Library will be bringing books to residents of the Bronx, Staten Island, and Manhattan via a new fleet of brand new, strawberry red-colored vans. These new NYPL bookmobiles are designed to help communities … Continue reading
Posted in Books, History, Libraries, USA
Tagged Bookmobiles, Bronx, New York City, NYPL, Queens, Staten Island
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Travel Between The Pages 