Bookmobile continues expanding access to Clark Countians

By Aubrey Kimble | The Winchester Sun

The Clark County Public Library’s new book­mo­bile has offi­cial­ly com­plet­ed its first full route and is already expand­ing access to library resources through­out the community.

​“It’s going real­ly well,” said Grace Quisenberry, the book­mo­bile dri­ver and out­reach librar­i­an. “We have checked out, I believe, around 200 to 300 books so far in the last two or three weeks.”

​Quisenberry explained that hav­ing this mobile resource has helped increase the num­ber of peo­ple in the com­mu­ni­ty sign­ing up for library memberships.

“We’ve been sign­ing a ton of peo­ple up for (library) cards; I just had to mail out about 10 cards this morn­ing from this last week,” said Quisenberry.

​The book­mo­bile has also pro­vid­ed access to library resources for peo­ple who may not have been able to reach the Clark County Public Library’s main location.

​“I grew up here, and I grew up in the coun­ty,” said Quisenberry. “So it’s been excit­ing being able to go out [and] talk to peo­ple and give access to peo­ple that can’t dri­ve, whether that’s due to med­ical rea­sons or just not hav­ing access to a car.”

​The book­mo­bile offers a large vari­ety of book gen­res for all ages. The book­mo­bile does take requests and, accord­ing to Quisenberry, would be hap­py to car­ry the books that peo­ple specif­i­cal­ly want.

​They also recent­ly went fine-free, with a 4‑week check­out peri­od and two oppor­tu­ni­ties to renew, for a total of 3 months per book.

​“The library is such a good resource in terms of, I mean, fic­tion; you can actu­al­ly enter­tain your­self, and you don’t have to nec­es­sar­i­ly have access to tele­vi­sion or the inter­net, or any of it. But also the non­fic­tion as well. It gives access to dif­fer­ent bits of infor­ma­tion,” said Quisenberry.

The main goal for the bookmobile’s future is awareness.

​“I would like peo­ple in every com­mu­ni­ty that we are going into to know that we are there, and know that they could take advan­tage of this resource that we’re offer­ing,” said Quisenberry.

​The book­mo­bile route cov­ers Heritage Park, Shearer Elementary School, Legacy Grove Park, Community Park, Westwood Apartments, Quick Shop Trailer Park, CC’s Closet, Winn Avenue Market, Sequoia Village, Treehaven, Yorktowne and more places in the Clark County community.

​The offi­cial sched­ule, through the end of August, is post­ed on the Clark County Public Library social media accounts, and paper copies are avail­able on the bookmobile.