Back Issues: Hitting the road with mobile library service
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Local historians weekly "Back Issues" article in the Manawatū Standard. The first mobile library service was delivered from a caravan to locations around Palmerston North. It was seen as a more efficient way of delivering library books than maintaining a range of branch libraries. The caravan was replaced by a bus in 1973, carrying half its stock for children and half for adults.
The bus has been upgraded several times. In 2023 the Mobile Library carries 7000 items and visits 33 stops each week.
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- Born digital
- Relation
- Manawatū Standard
- Date
- April 15, 2023
- Digitisation id
- 2023Pa_IMCA-DigitalArchive_041083
- Format
- Born Digital
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- IMCA Digital Archive
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- Created By
- Lesley Courtney
- Place
- Palmerston North
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