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Tag Archives: Bookmobiles
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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Don’t Just Recycle Book Cycle
Over the years I’ve seen photos of the quaint Book-Cycle shop in Exeter, UK, but never thought to explore what it was all about until TBTP reader Evan S. suggested a post on the project. Since 2007, Book-Cycle has been … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Books, Bookstore Tourism, Europe, Libraries
Tagged Bookmobiles, Devon, Exeter, recycled books, Rome, United Kingdom
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Bookstore Tourism: Charleston S.C. (update)
Back in January, I posted a story about a funky, traveling bookstore in Charleston, South Carolina called The Itinerant Literate. Now the bookmobile launched in 2016 by Christen Thompson and Julia Turner will have a permanent home in a bricks and … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Bookstore Tourism, USA
Tagged Bookmobiles, Bookselling, Charleston, South Carolina
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National Bookmobile Day
Almost missed it.
Posted in Books, Libraries, USA
Tagged Bookmobiles, National Bookmobile Day, National Library Week
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