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“The Book Boat” How Locals Saved a 60-Year-Old Floating Library
Many of those isolated hamlets are most easily accessible by boat rather than car, so in 1959, a group of librarians secured government funding to launch a waterborne library service with a special emphasis on children’s literature.
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