Professional paper
The role and signifi cance of mobile libraries in the life of local communities
Ljiljana Črnjar
orcid.org/0000-0003-1475-6397
Ljiljana Vugrinec
orcid.org/0000-0002-4274-3430
Abstract
There are ten mobile library services in Croatia, with twelve library buses. In the areas they cover with their services, mobile libraries are often the first and the only form of library available to the local population in their communities. In the first part of the paper I will present the data concerning the activities of mobile libraries in Croatia in 2009, with the special emphasis on the regional and population coverage, services, and availability to different categories of users. In the second part I will present two examples of good practice of mobile libraries at county level which can serve as a model for establishing new mobile library services. On the example of Primorsko-goranska and Koprivničko-križevačka counties we will present two county library networks, in which the satisfactory coverage of population is achieved through the library services of the library buses.
Keywords
mobile library; library bus; library bus service; public library network
Hrčak ID:
80584
URI
Publication date:
8.3.2011.
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