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interesting article about dedicated librarians in venezuela from BBC news
   
  Venezuela's four-legged mobile libraries 
  A university in Venezuela is using a novel method to take books into remote 
communities and encourage people to read. As James Ingham reports, the scheme is 
proving a great success.   

    Chiquito and Cenizo greet me with a bit of a snort and a flick of the tail.   
Mules are too tough to bother being sweet. They do a hard job which no other animal 
or human invention can do as well.   But these mules are rather special.   They are 
known as bibliomulas (book mules) and they are helping to spread the benefits of 
reading to people who are isolated from much of the world around them.   My trek 
started from the Valley of Momboy in Trujillo, one of Venezuela's three Andean 
states.   These are the foothills of the Andes but they are high enough, especially 
when you are walking. 
   
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/6929404.stm
   
  ~~~~~~~~~`
  mary gavlik
  library media specialist
  chuckey doak middle school
  afton, tn



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You see, I don't believe that libraries should be drab places 
where people sit in silence, and that's been the main reason
for our policy of employing wild animals as librarians. 
— Monty Python skit
       
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