Halifax currently uses one bookmobile which has been in operation since 2002. The mobile library is managed by Kathleen Peverill, Mobile Branch Manager. She handles ordering/selecting material for the mobile library, staff issues, advertising, and scheduling. Every two weeks material is refreshed. It carries over 5000 materials and it also allows patrons to place holds on other HPL material that they can pick up on the mobile branch. It serves five districts and the bookmobile’s “home base” is in Sackville, NS.
Halifax's bookmobile has just currently been give a one year only extension. With the building of new branches and the very new and exciting central branch being built within the city, library funding, which primarily comes from the municipality as opposed to the province, is being spent elsewhere.
See more under “Urban Vs. Rural.”
References
Halifax Public Libraries. (n.d.). Retrieved June 1, 2011, from http://www.halifaxpubliclibraries.ca/branches/locations/mobile-library.html
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