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A Winter Library Visit: The Independent Baking Company

Posted on January 5, 2024 by SCblogger

We always enjoy looking at this picture taken in the mid-to-late 1910s at the Independent Baking Company at 2429 Rockingham Road. It is a winter scene with the librarian checking books in and out for children dressed against the cold … Continue reading →

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“The Lydia” – Iowa’s First Bookmobile

Posted on April 15, 2015 by SCblogger

  In the summer of 1926, the County Library Committee of the Iowa Library Association rolled out what would become Iowa’s first bookmobile. Every county in Iowa could secure the use of this library on wheels for a week at … Continue reading →

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