Could you please tell me what the employee does? Is the person a loader within a library and carries packs of books between the storage and the reading room, for example? Or the employee performs home delivery services? Or both? Or anything else?
Kirill Semenov (asker): 09:41 Aug 23, 2005: Hi Kurt :) - No, I believe this is not a metaphor. It's a part of a set of names for librarians as employees (like Information scientists->Librarians>Catalogers, for example)
Kirill Semenov (asker): 09:45 Aug 23, 2005: Kurt - I think you shouldn't hide your answer. Don't forget that we have KOG, and someone might be interested in your links in the future. Kurt Porter: 09:45 Aug 23, 2005: Nick, I'm with you. Since your 12 minutes beats my 13 minutes (on my first note), I'm going to hide my answer and agree with you. Even though my links are awesome! :) - Kurt Porter: 09:54 Aug 23, 2005: Kirill, go to google, hit define:packhorse librarian. Lots of links backing Nick up. Some of the articles are quite interesting! - Kirill Semenov (asker): 09:55 Aug 23, 2005: Kurt - Thank you. Don't you mind if I ask a moderator to unhide your answer, anyway? It does contains useful links. Kurt Porter: 10:01 Aug 23, 2005: http://www.kdla.ky.gov/resources/KYPackhorseLib.htm,http://www.harwich.edu/depts/history/pp/newdealB/tsld063.htm...http://www.inetogether.net/02-01/book-05.php (my favorite article/book review on this issue). These women got $28.00 a month. - Kirill Semenov (asker): 10:02 Aug 23, 2005: Thank you, Kurt :) - I believe $28 a month was not very good even at the times of the Great Depression. Or was it?.. Kurt Porter: 10:13 Aug 23, 2005: Average salary during the depression era (1930-1939)was $1,368. Here is a link about the Depression with statistics: http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/decade30.html -
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Pach horse librarians traveled via mule or horse to rural areas from the Great Depression era of 1935 to 1943 when the Works Progress Administration withdrew funding. The collections included books, magazines, newspapers, and recipes and were carried in string bags or pillowcases as well as saddlebags.
From School Library Journal:
Imagine a cold, steep trip up a mountain path; it is icy and a light rain falls. A woman is riding an old horse and has a bag full of books to deliver. The families she stops to see are waiting for her, a one-room schoolhouse full of children greet her at the door. One woman walks nine miles to meet her and exchange her books and magazines. This is a day in the life of a pack-horse librarian. From 1935 to 1943, local Kentucky women were paid a meager salary as part of the WPA to do just this. (WPA = Works Progress Administration, created in 1935 935 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt under his 1933 New Deal initiative)
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The first "bookmobile" service, as one site calls it (though this is inaccurate).
This is Kurt's favourite book review (link reprinted here with permission, I hope :- ) http://www.inetogether.net/02-01/book-05.php
And, for those really interested in the subject, the Amazon copy is searchable.
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Pach horse librarians traveled via mule or horse to rural areas from the Great Depression era of 1935 to 1943 when the Works Progress Administration withdrew funding. The collections included books, magazines, newspapers, and recipes and were carried in string bags or pillowcases as well as saddlebags.
From School Library Journal:
Imagine a cold, steep trip up a mountain path; it is icy and a light rain falls. A woman is riding an old horse and has a bag full of books to deliver. The families she stops to see are waiting for her, a one-room schoolhouse full of children greet her at the door. One woman walks nine miles to meet her and exchange her books and magazines. This is a day in the life of a pack-horse librarian. From 1935 to 1943, local Kentucky women were paid a meager salary as part of the WPA to do just this. (WPA = Works Progress Administration, created in 1935 935 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt under his 1933 New Deal initiative)
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The first "bookmobile" service, as one site calls it (though this is inaccurate).
This is Kurt's favourite book review (link reprinted here with permission, I hope :- ) http://www.inetogether.net/02-01/book-05.php
And, for those really interested in the subject, the Amazon copy is searchable.
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