Reizende vuurtorenbibliotheek
Om ook vuurtorenwachters en hun families van boeken te voorzien werd voor hen in 1876 in de Amerikaanse staat Michigan een portable library geïntroduceerd. De reden daarvoor was dat
Lighthouses were often time located in remote areas and as such had no access to city services such as libraries, opera houses, entertainment, etc. that most people enjoyed who lived in a town or city. As light keeping was a lonely profession in most cases supplies were brought to them by lighthouse tender ships. One of the items the tender supplied was a library box on each visit as pictured to the left. Library boxes were filled with books and switched from station to station to supply different reading materials to the families.”
Eigenlijk een voorloper van de bibliobus dus. Geweldig. En met dank overigens aan Boingboing, dat een artikel aan de reisbibliotheek wijdde.
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