The Beverly Library bookmobile
The Boston Globe
Dozens of bookmobiles once roared across Massachusetts towns and cities. But over the years, citing a change in the demographics and the cost of repairing and replacing outdated bookmobiles, libraries across the state have taken their bookmobiles off the streets. Beverly's red-and-white jalopy (left) is the largest of the four bookmobiles that still operate in the state.
Dozens of bookmobiles once roared across Massachusetts towns and cities. But over the years, citing a change in the demographics and the cost of repairing and replacing outdated bookmobiles, libraries across the state have taken their bookmobiles off the streets. Beverly's red-and-white jalopy (left) is the largest of the four bookmobiles that still operate in the state.
(Globe Staff Photo / Jim Davis)