bookmobiles
Libraries on wheels
Bookmobiles are vehicles, typically buses or vans, converted into mobile libraries that bring books to communities without easy access to permanent library branches.
They travel scheduled routes through rural areas, neighborhoods, or institutions like nursing homes and schools: The bookmobile comes to our street every Thursday.
Book collection or building
- ruralOf the countryside
- underservedInsufficiently provided for
- communitiesGroups with shared ties
- accessRight to enter
literacy · public service · branches · patrons · circulation · lending · cardholders · neighborhoods
Multi-passenger road vehicles
- vansEnclosed cargo vehicles
- convertedAltered in form or purpose
- shelvingHorizontal storage surfaces
- driversVehicle operators or motivating forces
routes · schedules · parking · wheels · diesel · trailers · retrofitted · generators
Books with flexible covers
- audiobooksNarrated literary recordings
- DVDsOptical video storage media
- magazinesPeriodic illustrated publications
- bestsellersTop-selling books
holds · catalogs · checkout · barcodes · due dates · renewals · genres · large print
Network authentication standard
- horse-drawnPowered by equines
- 1905Four-digit year designation
- MarylandMid-Atlantic U.S. state
- CarnegieGilded Age industrialist
rural America · Kentucky · postwar · expansion · 1960s · federal funding · evolution · archives
Programmable electronic devices
- tabletsFlat portable computing devices
- digital literacyAbility to use technology effectively
- downloadingReceiving digital data remotely
- connectedJoined to another
broadband · charging stations · online catalogs · self-checkout · RFID · connectivity · wireless · devices
library
Book collection or building
- ruralOf the countryside
- underservedInsufficiently provided for
- communitiesGroups with shared ties
access · literacy · public service · branches · patrons · circulation · lending · cardholders · neighborhoods · schools
buses
Multi-passenger road vehicles
drivers · routes · schedules · parking · wheels · diesel · trailers · retrofitted · generators · hydraulic lifts
paperbacks
Books with flexible covers
- audiobooksNarrated literary recordings
- DVDsOptical video storage media
- magazinesPeriodic illustrated publications
bestsellers · holds · catalogs · checkout · barcodes · due dates · renewals · genres · large print · bilingual
WPA
Network authentication standard
- horse-drawnPowered by equines
- 1905Four-digit year designation
- MarylandMid-Atlantic U.S. state
Carnegie · rural America · Kentucky · postwar · expansion · 1960s · federal funding · evolution · archives · photographs
computers
Programmable electronic devices
- tabletsFlat portable computing devices
- digital literacyAbility to use technology effectively
- downloadingReceiving digital data remotely
connected · broadband · charging stations · online catalogs · self-checkout · RFID · connectivity · wireless · devices
- librarieslibrarians, public libraries, librarian, public library, library card
- community outreachoutreach, volunteer networks, health screenings, nutrition education, vaccination drives
- library servicesyouth services, reference desk, reference librarian, librarians, adult literacy
- public librarieslibrarians, library cards, borrowing, checkout, due dates
- Rural Educationrural schools, one-room schoolhouse, one-room schools, village schools, rural communities
- literary librariessecret archives, hidden knowledge, ancient texts, dusty shelves, reading rooms
bookmobilescentral library
Principal public book repository
main library · research libraries · university libraries · national libraries · Library of Congress