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Fantastic work. Congratulations!

On old photos it is possible to study history. Public library on wheels...

Gives a feeling of an innocent time where the truck was essentially the internet of the day - moving information from location to location along the back road "super highways" of the time.

I remember the bookmobile coming to Blackalls Park where I lived as a child. It was wonderful to have a library on wheels coming on a regular basis. I was an avid reader so was glad for the service.

bhojman- glad you have such great memories of the library. If you want to take a trip down memory lane there are lots of historic photos of Lake Macquarie at Lake Macquarie City Council website

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called *Book Sniffers*, and we'd love to have this added to the group! -- Seen on your photo stream. (?)

The Belmont Branch of the Richmond Pubic Library system was the first branch built after the Main Library. The branch is located at 3100 Ellwood Avenue in the Museum District of Richmond. The branch opened on October 25, 1956. It was expanded ten years later, with the expansion opening in 1966.

This image has been used in the indicommons.org post A Commons Bibliography, announcing Indicommons' bibliography of research and reports on The Commons.

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Sorry about this, I also can't resist - allaboutfrogs.org/funstuff/jokes/lbrry.html

beachcomber australia That link blocked here at Library Towers! Obviously we're not supposed to see fun stuff... :)

National Library of Ireland on The Commons Here it is (an oldie but goodie - please delete if too long!) - A librarian is working away at her desk when she notices that a chicken has come into the library and is patiently waiting in front of the desk. When the chicken sees that it has the librarian's attention, it squawks, "Book, book, book, BOOK!" The librarian complies, putting a couple of books down in front of the chicken. The chicken quickly grabs them and disappears. The next day, the librarian is again disturbed by the same chicken, who puts the previous day's pile of books down on the desk and again squawks, "Book, book, book, BOOK!" The librarian shakes her head, wondering what the chicken is doing with these books, but eventually finds some more books for the chicken. The chicken disappears. The next day, the librarian is once again disturbed by the chicken, who squawks (in a rather irritated fashioon, it seems), "Book, book, book, BOOK!" By now, the librarian's curiosity has gotten the better of her, so she gets a pile of books for the chicken, and follows the bird when it leaves the library. She follows it through the parking lot, down the street for several blocks, and finally into a large park. The chicken disappears into a small grove of trees, and the librarian follows. On the other side of the trees is a small marsh. The chicken has stopped on the side of the marsh. The librarian, now really curious, hurries over and sees that there is a small frog next to the chicken, examining each book, one at a time. The librarian comes within earshot just in time to hear the frog saying, "Read it, read it, read it..."

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The same hoarding covered in posters is just make-outable in this small postcard image at the Belfast Telegraph.