'The Booker' visits Paoli
Link to June 26 Wisconsin State Journal article, "Young readers rejoice when 'Booker' hits town".
Excerpt: The Booker is no ordinary wagon. It is 35 feet long, travels 257 miles a week in rain, snow and sunshine, carries about 3,500 items (books, movies, DVDs, large-print, magazines, CDs), not including the boxes of books reserved online by readers who visit at 15 stops in Dane County. Any notion of declining book reading or bookmobile use in the digital age of Kindle, WI-FI and the internet can’t be proven here, said Julie Anne Chase, director of the Dane County Library Service.
While the number of bookmobiles in Wisconsin is down to nine, the Dane County bookmobile is going strong and in neighboring Wisconsin Dells, the Kilbourn Public Library just acquired its first bookmobile two years ago.
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