#national library week
Bookmobiles
As part of National Library Week, today we celebrate bookmobiles and other library outreach programs! Minneapolis Public Library and Hennepin County Library both operated bookmobiles for decades. In fact, Hennepin County Library started 100 years ago as a rural bookmobile. Bookmobiles served communities without easy access to library buildings and even took the place of libraries closed for renovation. Hennepin County Library continues to bring library resources into the community, but the last bookmobile stopped its route in 2004.
Photos from the Hennepin County Library collections in the Minnesota Digital Library. Learn more about our bookmobiles in the Hennepin County Library Digital Collections.
Happy National Library Week! https://www.ala.org/confe…/celebrationweeks/natlibraryweek
This poster was from National Library Week in 1961.
Click here to read President Kennedy’s message regarding National Library Week.
This poster was created for National Library Week in 1970 by Peter Max.