Mobile Library Service: Parked Opposite Headquarters

Category

Library Item

Item no

28429

Title

Mobile Library Service: van parked opposite headquarters

Description

Library van parked on the Cowgate opposite to Central Library building.

Artist / maker

Boylan, Brian

Date

1980

Size

20.3 x 25.5 cm

Type

Photograph

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

Edinburgh Libraries went mobile when it introduced the first urban mobile service in Scotland in 1949 serving areas without permanent library buildings. The reach of the library also increased with the introduction of a housebound service in 1964 through cooperation with WRVS volunteers. A library link service was launched in 1992 providing transport to and from the library for users who, due to physical constraints, would be otherwise unable to visit.

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Places > Edinburgh areas > Cowgate

Places > Scotland > Edinburgh

Sport and leisure > Activities > Reading and books

Transport > Land > Mobile libraries

Transport > Land > Trucks

Transport > Land > Vans

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Mobile Library Service: parked opposite headquarters