Library on Wheels: Mary Lemist Titcomb and America's First Bookmobile by Glenn, Sharlee

Library on Wheels: Mary Lemist Titcomb and America's First Bookmobile

If you can't bring the man to the books, bring the books to the man. Mary Lemist...
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Author: Sharlee Glenn
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Library on Wheels: Mary Lemist Titcomb and America's First Bookmobile by Glenn, Sharlee

Library on Wheels: Mary Lemist Titcomb and America's First Bookmobile

$50.18

Library on Wheels: Mary Lemist Titcomb and America's First Bookmobile

$50.18
Author: Sharlee Glenn
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
If you can't bring the man to the books, bring the books to the man.

Mary Lemist Titcomb (1852-1932) was always looking for ways to improve her library. As librarian at the Washington County Free Library in Maryland, Titcomb was concerned that the library was not reaching all the people it could. She was determined that everyone should have access to the library--not just adults and those who lived in town. Realizing its limitations and inability to reach the county's 25,000 rural residents, including farmers and their families, Titcomb set about to change the library system forever with the introduction of book-deposit stations throughout the country, a children's room in the library, and her most revolutionary idea of all--a horse-drawn Book Wagon. Soon book wagons were appearing in other parts of the country, and by 1922, the book wagon idea had received widespread support. The bookmobile was born!

Author: Sharlee Glenn
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Published: 04/10/2018
Pages: 56
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 10.10h x 10.00w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781419728754
Audience: Ages 9-12

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.3
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 501260 / Library on Wheels: Mary Lemist Titcomb and America's First Bookmobile


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/19/2018
Booklist 02/15/2018 pg. 69
Kirkus Reviews 03/01/2018
BookPage 04/01/2018
School Library Journal 04/01/2018 pg. 143
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2018 pg. 190 - Below Average, With Minor Flaw

About the Author
Sharlee Glenn has published articles, essays, poems, and short stories for adults and children. She lives in Pleasant Grove, Utah.



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