Platte County Bookmobile

 

  

Karen Hake, Bookmobile Librarian

Bookmobile is for everyone –CHILDREN AND ADULTS

Contact the Columbus Public Library (564-7116) to reserve books for delivery to you at your Bookmobile stop.  Visit the Library’s website at www.columbuslibrary.info for other services including electronic searches of the collection and other electronic databases.
                                 

 

Check out  the other features of this website, including electronic searches of the collection and the obituary index to the Columbus Telegram newspaper.

TRACTOR REPAIR MANUALS
The Columbus Public Library has an extensive collection of tractor repair manuals--especially for older models.  Please ask the Bookmobile Librarian about borrowing a copy.

                                                                                               

PLATTE COUNTY BOOKMOBILE  

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                                                         FALL SCHEDULE

 

AUGUST – DECEMBER                          KAREN HAKE, LIBRARIAN

 RUN A  MONDAY                                    RUN F  MONDAY

 AUG. 23  SEPT. 20  OCT. 4                                      AUG. 16  AUG. 30  SEPT. 13

OCT. 18  NOV. 1  NOV. 15  NOV. 29                     SEPT. 27  OCT. 11  OCT 25 

DEC. 13                                                                      NOV. 8  NOV. 22  DEC. 6  DEC. 20

 

SHELL CREEK         8:00 -  2:30                              LINDSAY ATT.        8:00 -  8:30

                                                                                    HOLY FAMILY        8:30 -  3:00

                                                                                    LINDSAY                  3:05 -  4:00

  

RUN B  TUESDAY                                   RUN G  TUESDAY

 AUG. 24  SEPT. 7  SEPT. 21                                     AUG. 17  AUG. 31  SEPT. 14

OCT. 5  OCT. 19  NOV. 2                                         SEPT. 28  OCT. 12  OCT. 26

NOV. 16  NOV. 30  DEC. 14                                     NOV. 9   NOV. 23   DEC. 7 

 

 LAKEVIEW J H        8:00 - 12:00                             CHRIST LUTH          11:00 -  1:00

MONROE                  3:00 -  4:30                              ST. JOHN’S                  1:30 -   3:00

                                                                                    CRESTON                    3:30  -  4:15

  

RUN C  WEDNESDAY                                                RUN H  WEDNESDAY

 AUG. 25  SEPT. 8  SEPT. 22                                        AUG. 18  SEPT. 1  SEPT. 15

OCT. 6  OCT. 20  NOV. 3  NOV. 17                           SEPT. 29  OCT. 13  OCT. 27

DEC. 1  DEC. 15                                                            NOV. 10  NOV. 24  DEC. 8

  

P.C. ELEM.                8:00 -  2:00                                HUMP. PUB.              8:00 - 10:45

LAKEVIEW              3:15 -  4:00                                 ST. FRAN.                10:50 -   2:00

  

PROUD HISTORY OF PLATTE COUNTY LIBRARY SERVICE:

A light-green bread-box shaped vehicle served until the spring of 1990 when a new blue and white bus-like vehicle, manufactured by the Thomas Built Bus Company of High Point, North Carolina, was delivered to the library. The old Gerstenslager had gone through two engines and the odometer showed 300,000 miles travel in its nearly 20 years of service.

In the spring of 1999, the County Board of Supervisors and the Library Board of the Columbus Public Library negotiated a three year contract for bookmobile and walk-in library service.

Prior to the end of that three-year contract, in March of 2002, the County Board of Supervisors voted to place the issue of bookmobile and walk-in library service on the May primary election ballot. Following a campaign by county residents who advocated library and bookmobile funding, the voters at the primary election cast 83% of their votes in favor of a levy to continue paying for bookmobile and walk-in library service.

A new "Freightliner" bookmobile was ordered and received just in time to be in the City's Sesquicentennial Parade on Sunday, July 1st, 2006.  This new, but shorter, vehicle replaces the Thomas Built bus-type bookmobile that was in use for nearly 15 years.
Platte County Library Advisory Board:

Sandy Wegener, Carol Rosendahl, and
Liz Young

    

Staff:

Karen Hake, Bookmobile Librarian (since 1967)

In the summer of 1967, when Win Jacobsen, the city librarian (1961-1979), was hiring staff for this new library service, he chose Karen Hake, a young lady fresh out of high school, to work as the “Bookmobile Librarian."