Tuesday in Mooseville – SHEnanigans: Packhorse Librarians by DoReMI • November 12, 2019.
The horse-riding librarians worked like mail carriers, loading up books and moving them from place to place through near-freezing rivers and over the steep Kentucky mountains, traveling between 100 and 120 miles a week, at least twice a month. (Photo by Muye Ma on Unsplash) I had never heard of these amazing women until the INSH video happened to pop up in my Facebook feed one day. The bookmobile was travelling library often used to provide books to villages and city suburbs that had no library buildings. The bookmobiles - Vintage photos of traveling libraries, 1910s-1960s. Thanks for this. The Pack Horse Librarians. description: This collection provides access to each photograph and its accompanying cation included in the Packhorse Librarian Album.- scanned. When the Works Progress Administration (WPA) was established in 1935, it had the responsibility for creating employment through developing infrastructure across the country.
Looking through the images, I found this children's book about Pack Horse Librarians (though I have to say it sounds a bit rubbish).
A pack horse librarian reads out-loud to a man in the Kentucky mountains; 12 January 1938 . Dublin Core Metadata. The horseback librarians managed to overcome that attitude so well that a story is told that at least one family refused to move to another county because it had no packhorse library service. subject: Photographs.
Nov 21, 2017 - Explore cactus430065's board "HORSEBACK LIBRARIANS", followed by 101 people on Pinterest. M0047-RG1670S. I suspect mobile libraries in the UK will be vulnerable to cuts in the new climate, though I can only find one post-Spending Review article about this, relating to Hampshire's service. subject: Work Projects Administration- libraries.
Save In any weather, from dawn until past dark, the dedicated librarians rode to deliver their precious cargo. Today, a short post on the Pack Horse Librarians from Jennifer Koth.Jennifer also sent along the image at the top of the post, “Soon-to-be-Mother Receiving Books from Pack Horse Librarian,” which is a National Archives image she found via the New Deal Network.You can see more images of Pack Horse Librarians here. identifier: M0047-RG1670S. title: Packhorse Librarian Album- Images. It’s Friday, which seems to be the day we celebrate whole groups of women! The librarians were mostly women who earned meager wages riding circuits of 18 to 20 miles delivering books, magazines and newspapers.
A few years ago, when I was shopping my now-shelved first novel, an industry insider told me to put the word “girls” in the title. See more ideas about Library humor, Librarian humor and Library quotes. Updated April 6, 2019. Women were very involved in the project which eventually had 30 different libraries serving 100,000 people.
Mar 28, 2020 - The original search engine. I’m sure there’s much more than I can imagine that could have been daunting for these librarians and I’m also certain there were times they wanted to quit!
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