Mobile and Outreach Library Services in Thailand

Abstract

Edited version of a poster session presented at the 68th IFLA General Conference, 18–24 August 2002, Glasgow, Scotland. Briefly describes: the mobile library service and book houses of the Bangkok Metropolitan Municipality; floating libraries and information and educational services on elephants of the Department of Non-Formal Education, Ministry Of Education; library trains for homeless children provided by the Railway Police Division of the Royal Thai Police; the bookmobile project for rural school children of the Department of Library and Information Science, Khon Kaen University; outreach information services to rural communities provided by the Academic Resource Center, Mahasarakham University; portable libraries provided by the Department of Library Science, Srinakharinwirot University; and travelling books for young readers provided by the Central Library, Srinakharinwirot University.

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