Platte County Bookmobile

 

   Karen Hake, Bookmobile Librarian

 

                                   January - May  2008 

   

RUN A  MONDAY                                           RUN F  MONDAY


 Jan 7, Jan 21, Feb 4, Mar 3                     Jan 14, Jan 28, Feb 11, Feb 25
Mar 17, Mar 31, Apr 14, Apr 28,               Apr 7, Apr 21, May 5
May 12


SHELL CREEK ELEM.      7:30 - 2:30           LINDSAY ATT.                8:00 - 8:45
                                                            HOLY FAMILY                 8:45 - 2:00
                                                            LINDSAY                       2:05 - 4:00



 RUN B TUESDAY                                           RUN G TUESDAY

 Jan 8, Jan 22, Feb 5, Feb 19,                   Jan 15, Jan 29, Feb 12, Feb 26,
Mar 4, Apr 1, Apr 15, Apr 29                     Mar 11, Mar 25, Apr 8, Apr 22,
May 13                                                 May 6

DUNCAN                    7:30 - 9:15            SUNRISE ELEM                  7:30 - 2:30
MONROE                    2:30 - 4:15


 RUN C  WEDNESDAY                                      RUN H  WEDNESDAY 

Jan 9, Jan 23, Feb 6, Feb 20,                    Jan 16, Jan 30, Feb 13, Feb 27,
Mar5, Mar 19, Apr 2, Apr 16,                     Mar 12, Mar 26, Apr 9, Apr 23,
Apr 30, May 14                                       May 7

P.CENTER ELEM        7:30 - 2:00              HUMPHREY PUBLIC         7:30 - 12:00
LAKEVIEW               3:15 - 4:15              ST. FRANCIS                12:05 -  1:15
                                                           CENTER ESU                  1:30 -  1:45



 RUN D  THURSDAY                                         RUN I  THURSDAY

Jan 24, Feb 7, Feb 21, Mar 6,                   Jan 17, Jan31, Feb 14, Feb 28,
Apr 3, Apr 17, May 1, May 15                    Mar 13, Mar 27, Apr 10, Apr 24
                                                            May 8

ST. FRANCIS             7:30 - 2:00             CHRIST LUTHERAN         10:30 - 1:00
                                                           ST. JOHN'S LUTHERAN    1:30 - 3:00
                                                           CRESTON                     3:30 - 4:15
   


                                

Contact the Columbus Public Library (564 7116) to reserve books for delivery to you at your Bookmobile stop.

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

 

 

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--from the fall of 1991 until this July.

 Platte County Library Advisory Board:

Carolyn Rhode

 Carol Rosendahl            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”.