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The Library Cruiser is a "book bike" from the Volusia County Libraries that debuted in Florida in September 2015. Library staff ride it to various locations, offering library books for checkout, as well as WiFi service, ebook access help, and information on obtaining a library card. [55]
A variant of the traveling library is the bookmobile or mobile library, which delivers books along definite routes radiating from some central library. [7] The great advantages of the traveling library are economy, mobility, and adaptability. The collection is limited to books definitely chosen for some purpose. The obsolete and useless are ...
In June 2017, the management and ownership of the Book Stop Intramuros was transferred to the Intramuros Administration. [1] [2] The Book Stop Intramuros is a component of WTA's The Book Stop Project Network which explores how libraries need to evolve, attract and engage contemporary users, and promote reading for the younger generations. [3]
The million book project was a "proof of concept" that has largely been replaced by HathiTrust, Google Book Search and the Internet Archive book scanning projects. The Internet Archive may have some books that Google does not (e.g.: The Poems of Robert Frost published after the end of 1922). [3] [4] [5]
It is often sent to organizations that need more books than a small shipment can provide, but do not need or have funding for a sea container. Sea Container - 20' or 40' containers that travel by sea, containing 10,000 - 40,000 books and can stock a University library or provide textbooks for an entire school district.
The African Library Project (ALP) is a non-profit organization that starts libraries in rural Africa. U.S. volunteers organize book drives and ship books to a library in Africa. ALP partners with governmental and non-governmental organizations in sub-Saharan Africa. The partners process applications from schools and communities that want ...
A book digitization project, led by Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science and University Libraries. [57] Working with government and research partners in India ( Digital Library of India ) and China , the project is scanning books in many languages, using OCR to enable full text searching, and providing free-to-read access to ...
The Biblioburro (The donkey library) is a traveling library that distributes books to patrons from the backs of two donkeys, Alfa and Beto. The program was created in La Gloria, Colombia, by Luis Soriano. [1] The biblioburro operates within the central municipalities of the Department of Magdalena, on Colombia's Caribbean shore.