Happy National Library Workers Day! Thank you to all who have worked and are working in libraries throughout Talbot County and beyond! Libraries are wonderful wildernesses of knowledge and library workers are the guides that help us navigate through the depths of knowledge and information. Sometimes that knowledge and information is brought right to our doorsteps!
Pictured from the Laird Wise collection at the Talbot Historical Society posted in the Easton Star-Democrat on May 20th, 1949, is a librarian, possibly Miss Cockey, poised to begin her voyage on the new GMC cab truck bookmobile of the Talbot County Free Library (TCFL) that allowed room to walk inside amongst the shelves of about 1,200 books. The first bookmobile given by the Board of Education in late 1941 featured book shelves on either side on the back of the Dodge truck with doors that lifted upwards. Virginia Darrow and Charlotte Fletcher were two of the first library workers to operate the original bookmobile.
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