There is an article in today’s Wisconsin State Journal about the 1949 Door-Kewaunee Regional Library bookmobile demonstration. Christine Pawley who has written extensively on the Door-Kewaunee Regional Library published an article in the Summer 2008 issue of the Wisconsin Magazine of History entitled “The Wisconsin Idea in Action: Reading, Resistance & the Door-Kewaunee Regional Library, 1950-1952”. Pawley, a Professor at the University of Wisconsin Madison School of Library and Information Studies, serves on the Steering Committee of the Wisconsin Library Heritage Center. We have recently completed a page on this site about Wisconsin’s bookmobiles. The image above is from the Wisconsin Historical Society’s digital collection.
Wisconsin Library Heritage Center
The Wisconsin Library Heritage Center is a program of the Wisconsin Library Association Foundation promoting understanding and appreciation of the history of libraries and librarianship in Wisconsin.