[OPLINLIST] 'Why We Love Our Bookmobile' video celebration puts spotlight on mobile outreach

[Marsha McDevitt-Stredney]

***Please distribute widely and forgive cross-posting***

 

NEWS

For Immediate Release

February 23, 2012

 

CHICAGO - As libraries gear up to celebrate the third National
Bookmobile Day on April 11, they can now share what makes their
bookmobile special through the "Why We Love Our Bookmobile" YouTube
video celebration.  Through April 11, libraries across the country are
invited to submit videos on the National Bookmobile Day YouTube channel
that highlight the essential library services that bookmobiles and their
dedicated staff provide every day, in communities large and small.

 

"Why We Love Our Bookmobile" is open to libraries and library agencies
who post videos that feature at least one of the following themes:
patron support for the bookmobile; bookmobile services; or the library's
2012 National Bookmobile Day celebrations. On National Bookmobile Day,
three participating libraries will be selected at random to receive $50
gift certificates from ALA Graphics.

 

For more information about "Why We Love Our Bookmobile," including
submission guidelines and instructions, please visit
www.ala.org/bookmobiles <http://www.ala.org/bookmobiles>  and click on
"Why We Love Our Bookmobile."

National Bookmobile Day celebrates America's bookmobiles and the
dedicated staff that provide vital library services in their
communities.   National Bookmobile Day is an opportunity for Americans
to express their support for these important mobile institutions. For
more than 100 years, bookmobiles have delivered information, technology
and resources for life-long learning to Americans of all walks of life. 

National Bookmobile Day, begun in 2010, is celebrated in conjunction
with National Library Week (April 8-14) and honors mobile delivery
outreach as an integral and vital part of library service in the United
States.   National Bookmobile Day is sponsored by the American Library
Association (ALA), the Association of Bookmobile and Outreach Services
(ABOS) and the Association for Rural & Small Libraries (ARSL).

 

To view the original news release on American Libraries, please visit: 

http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/news/ala/why-we-love-our-bookmobile
-video-celebration-puts-spotlight-mobile-outreach

 

For more information, please contact: 

John L. Amundsen | Communications Specialist | ALA Office for Literacy
and Outreach Services 

50 East Huron Street | Chicago, IL 60611 | T 312.280.2140 | F
312.280.3256 | jamundsen at ala.org   

 

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