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  2. Bookmobile - Wikipedia

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    A bookmobile, or mobile library, is a vehicle designed for use as a library. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] They have been known by many names throughout history, including traveling library, library wagon, book wagon, book truck, library-on-wheels, and book auto service. [ 3 ]

  3. Bookwheel - Wikipedia

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    Bookwheel, from Agostino Ramelli's Le diverse et artificiose machine, 1588. The bookwheel (also written book wheel and sometimes called a reading wheel) is a type of rotating bookcase that allows one person to read multiple books in one location with ease.

  4. Bookcase - Wikipedia

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    A bookcase, or bookshelf, is a piece of furniture with horizontal shelves, often in a cabinet, used to store books or other printed materials. Bookcases are used in private homes, public and university libraries, offices, schools, and bookstores. Bookcases range from small, low models the height of a table to high models reaching up to ceiling ...

  5. Mobile shelving - Wikipedia

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    Princeton University's Firestone Library's mobile aisle shelving / roller racking system Mobile aisle shelving is typically used for academic or commercial applications where a significant volume of physical archive material, filing or books is to be stored.

  6. Public bookcase - Wikipedia

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    Public bookcase in use, Bonn, Germany (2008) A public bookcase (also known as a free library or book swap or street library or sidewalk library) is a cabinet which may be freely and anonymously used for the exchange and storage of books without the administrative rigor associated with formal libraries.

  7. Mary Lemist Titcomb - Wikipedia

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    In 1902, Titcomb took a job as head librarian at the Washington County Free Library in Hagerstown, Maryland, which had opened in 1901 as only the second county library in the United States. [3] Titcomb was an outsider in the Hagerstown community, described as "frosty in manner," prim, proper, and pudgy, who always wore white gloves and a hat.

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