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The Pack Horse Library Project was a Works Progress Administration (WPA) program that delivered books to remote regions in the Appalachian Mountains between 1935 and 1943. Women were very involved in the project which eventually had 30 different libraries serving 100,000 people.
Pack horse librarian traversing rocky trail. The Pack Horse Library Project (1935-1943) was part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) program. Librarians, the vast majority of whom were women, delivered books to remote regions in the Appalachian Mountains.
Back during the Great Depression, the creek beds of eastern Kentucky weren't known for their hospitality. Cut Shin, Troublesome and Hell for Certain Creek -- the level of their compassion was ...
With the rise of motorized transport in America, a pioneering librarian in 1920 named Sarah Byrd Askew began driving her specially outfitted Model T to provide library books to rural areas in New Jersey. [21] The automobile remained rare, however, and in Minneapolis, the Hennepin County Public Library operated a horse-drawn book wagon starting ...
The Johnson County Public Library is a public library serving the residents of Johnson County, Kentucky. The library's collection contains 44,236 volumes, serves a population of 23,827, and circulates 120,687 items annually. [1] It is located at 444 Main Street in Paintsville, Kentucky and was established on February 3, 1947. [2]
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 ...
The Book Women of Kentucky: The WPA Pack Horse Library Project, 1935-1943. [23] Joyce M. Latham 2004 Clergy of the Mind: William S. Learned, the Carnegie Corporation, and the American Library Association. [24] No award 2003 Marek Sroka 2002 The Destruction of Jewish Libraries and Archives in Crakow (Krakow) During World War II. [25] No award 2001
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