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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:
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Sandy Wegener, Carol Rosendahl, and
Liz Young
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Staff:
Karen Hake, Bookmobile Staff (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."
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