ABOUT THE MOBILE LIBRARY
The Longview Library Foundation is excited to report that we have reached our fundraising goal for the new mobile library. We couldn't have gotten there without the tireless and generous support of local businesses and individuals within our community. Your generosity will help provide a critical resource to our community members for generations to come, the Foundation and its Directors would like to personally thank everyone involved!
Your library is here.
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WHAT IS A MOBILE LIBRARY?
A mobile library, also known as a book-mobile, is a visible and versatile extension of the library and its reach to the community. Our mobile library will be a custom-designed vehicle built to expand the services the library offers and where it can offer them. It not only will house and circulate books and movies it will also have wifi, printing capabilities, a technology lab, and lots more.
The mobile library will serve the City of Longview and the Cowlitz County Mini- Rural Partial Library District, which contracts with the city for library service. It will have regular neighborhood visits in Lexington, Beacon Hill, Columbia Heights, Broadway, West Longview, Stella, and the Highlands. Other visits will be based on community events, library programs, and local demand.
WHY DO WE NEED A MOBILE-LIBRARY?
The mobile library will allow the library to reach more people and families within its service area. By bringing library services out of the building and into our neighborhoods we find news ways to service our community and educate people about all services they have access to through their library.
Children that live too far away to safely walk or bike to the library or community members without cars will especially benefit from the library coming to them.
HOW MUCH DOES IT COST AND HOW IS IT BEING PAID FOR?
The Longview Library Foundation is excited to report that we have reached our fundraising goal for the new mobile library. We couldn't have gotten there without the tireless and generous support of local businesses and individuals within our community. Your generosity will help provide a critical resource to our community members for generations to come, the Foundation and its Directors would like to personally thank everyone involved!
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We anticipate that the mobile library will be delivered to the Longview Public Library in November of this year, and will start making early rounds about the area in December with an official launch of the Mobile Library Service in January 2025. We will be hosting a celebratory event to reveal the mobile library to the community on January 11, 2025, and all are welcome to join us.
We look forward to seeing you out and about the community very soon!
