Great Press for Fresno Bookmobile

Fresno County Library has a new 33 foot bookmobile! The Fresno Bee published a very positive article about it titled: Not Your Mom’s Bookmobile: Pretty and packed with books, this one turns heads. The new bookmobile stops at community centers, apartment complexes, shopping centers, retirement villages, and post offices. Patrons are thrilled with their new library on wheels!

Congratulations to Terry Sterling and Karen Maj

Kathy

Donkey Mobile Library

The October 2007 issue of Good Housekeeping magazine has a feature article about a donkey mobile library in Ethiopia. The article is called "Hope Volume 1" and is on page 200, authored by Melissa Fay Greene. "How a children's librarian and his donkey-drawn bookmobile are saving the world, one kid at a time."
It is truly inspiring!
Martha Buckner

Great Conference

At the ABOS conference, I was able to meet folks from all over the USA who provide bookmobile and outreach services. In addition, this conference attracted folks from other parts of the world (Canada, Australia, and the West Indies). It was neat to hear about the services that my colleagues provide. I picked up some neat ideas to try out. I am looking forward to staying in touch with the people that I met at the conference.

Rose Huling, Morse Institute Library, Natick, MA

Outreach in the News

The Decatur (IL) Public Library's outreach to the Spanish-speaking community gets mentioned in the local newspaper.--John

Conference Quote by Jan Meadows

"People are rejuvenated by the camaraderie and networking at the conference. You find that you are not alone. [Then] you come here and find out that there are other people who are doing what who you are doing."
Jan Meadows, Pikes Pike Library District
(As reported to our roving blogger, Rose)

Greetings from St.Louis

Hello Everyone! Greetings from St. Louis. We are beginning a great adventure in the blogging world. I wanted to let people know that we will be sharing thoughts and comments from the folks in the field. Please feel free to check out our website at www.abos-outreach.org. We have included photos of the conference. Rose

Reaching Out

ABOS is an association of bookmobile and outreach library workers. Every day we climb into vans or bookmobiles and bounce along lumpy roads, visit preschools and headstarts to teach literacy, and take book carts to senior centers. This blog is created to share our touching stories, our successes, our challenges and triumphs.

Kathy