xt7xwd3pwc2b_48 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7xwd3pwc2b/data/mets.xml https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7xwd3pwc2b/data/46m29.dao.xml unknown 0.3 Cubic Feet 1 box, 1 item archival material 46m29 English University of Kentucky The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center. Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. Works Progress Administration Fayette County Library Project records African Americans -- Kentucky Bookmobiles. Libraries and community -- Kentucky -- Fayette County. Libraries -- Kentucky -- Fayette County Libraries -- Kentucky. Library extension. Public libraries -- Kentucky Newspaper clippings on the Fayette County Library Project text Newspaper clippings on the Fayette County Library Project 2020 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7xwd3pwc2b/data/46m29/Item_1/Page_16/Multipage203.pdf 1938 October-November 1938 1938 October-November section false xt7xwd3pwc2b_48 xt7xwd3pwc2b Curb Service In Lexington, .Ky., Nov. 4 (KP)— Rural people of today are getting literary curb service—and liking it. Exhibits at the National Rural Home Conference here show how “bookmobiles” and trailers are penetrating the hinterlands and pack animals are carrying “book larnin’” to homes otherw1se 1n— accessible. The “bookmobile,” which looks like an ambulance with well- stocked book shelves and serves Ohio’s rural areas, was sent here by the Public Library of Cmcm- nati and Hamilton County. A trailer, prepared by the Fay.— ette County Community Councrl of Lexington, operates as a W.P.A. project. Pack riders mounted pn mules as well as horses—they re in W.P.A. service, too—carry books along mountain trails. Like Fiction. ‘Bookmobrles’ Give Rural Folk * "Literary Field charge of the trailer,_ said this land—going library carries a cargo of. more than 500 books as it visits churches and schools comprising its eight book centers or rolls up to doors of invalids and aged per- sons. Most of the books acquired in the project’s two months of existence are fiction. “Children’s books and Western are most in demand,” said Mrs. Dugan. “Detective stories and mysteries? Why, they Simply love mysteries—especially the murder kind.” . A number of illiterate elderly country women go to the centers . to have books read to them. Some puff corncob pipes as they listen. For many, said Mrs. Dugan, the idea of reading during leisure hours is new and, she added, “they really like it.” . _ Twenty workers assrst enthusr— astic Mrs. Dugan. They loaned 1,141 books the first month and 2,430 the second. Their hardest ‘* Head 0r Mobile library ls Speaker Mrs. Frances Smith Dugan, super- visor of the recently formedvFa- yette County circulating library unit, told members of the Lexington Al- trusa Club of the work of the unit at the club’s weekly meeting at noon yesterday at the Lafayette hotel. . w Mrs. Dugan told the Altrusa Club that “people need books; books need-people,” and it was upon this premise the library unit already is catching on in its efforts to get reading matter, books, magazines and pamphlets to rural men, women and children within the county’s boundaries. The speaker was introduced by Mrs. Helen Hifner Fortune, program chairman. Miss Anna Lehan, Vice president, presided in the absence of the president, Mrs. George Edwin Smith, who yesterday delivered a talk at Covington. ‘ With a trailer filled with books from the Lexington public library shelves, Mrs. Dugan regularly visits the eight reading centers in rural sections of the county where the reading material is distributed. Mrs. Dugan said 20 men and women were engaged in the project, ' which has WPA support. Plans for a birthday party at the home (if ~Mrs. Mary Cloud Warley thenight of Saturday, Nov. 26 were <. C. an: r c; r i 0 mt v“. i it x}- C) LL» Y“ n it“, (\2 How 53.? M :W The opening of the Douglass Com- munity Library at Douglass high job was filling a request for a‘ Mrs. Frances Dugan, who has text on plumbing. announced at the meeting. \ school offers a free circulating col- lection of books for the community. This is the Negro branch of the Fa— yette county new free circulating library sponsored by WPA, Com- munity Council, county school board and Lexington Public Library. Books and magazines may be taken be- tween the hours of 9 a. m. and 3:3 p. m. Mrs. P. E. Stephens is in charge. I . . i- - r' , in; W V‘. :i r, on H {fyétlg _ L, c; moi or ’ it. get. H a a J ,a..........‘...! Z Kenwick The Kenwick Homemakers will I meet Monday at 10 a. m. with Mrs. I John R. McVeigh, 105 Cochran road. . Mrs. Hammond Dugan 0f the Fay- \s ette County circulating library will speak. I: H {are id“- in e Qt chm. \‘Lrni' \3 ”(33? l r . rural men, women and ‘the centers, the . . eventually to reach CLUB IS INifiMED OF RURAL LIBRARY “People need books; books need; people.” f Upon this premise, the recently formed Fayette county circulating library unit already is catching on in its efforts to get reading matter, books, magazines and pjamphlets to 3 within the county’s boundaries, Mrs. lrances Smith Dugan, supervisor, informed members of the Lexington Altrusa Club at their weekly lunch- eon-meeting today at the"-Lafayette hotel. The speaker was introduced by " Mrs. Helen Hifner Fortune, program chairman. Miss Anna Lehan, vice president, presided in the absence of the president, Mrs. George Ed- wm Smith, who today delivered aE ‘ talk at Covington. J With a trailer filled with booksj from the Lexington public library shelves, Mrs. Dugan regularly visits; the eight reading centers in rural; sections of the county where the reading material is distributed. Mrs. Dugan said 20 men and . women were engaged in the project, which has WPI. support. Through library hopes 22,000 rural men, women and children. The library also eventually will reach shut—ins, she said. Plans for a birthday party at the home of Mrs. Mary Cloud Warley a the night of Saturday, Nov. 26 also was announced. children ‘ Lemme-row LEADER LEXINGTON HERALD. Nov.r NW- 11 mas. o ”3?.