A library on wheels can come to your community in Middle GA. Here are the details.

Book lovers rejoice! There’s a new library in town and it’s mobile.

Last Thursday (March 24) at the Collins P. Lee Center in Milledgeville, a ribbon cutting unveiled the new project which is called Library Without Walls (WOW).

According to the Middle Georgia Regional Library, Library Without Walls (WOW) “delivers pop-up libraries to communities in Bibb County wherever and whenever they’re needed.”

After its success in Bibb county, Library WOW will now serve as a rural library branch available to Baldwin, Crawford, Jones, Macon, Twiggs, and Wilkinson counties.

Those that request Library WOW services can have the mobile library make an appearance at an event, participate in story time, or serve as a resource for an organization. Currently in Bibb county, the pop-up is a part of Mulberry Market on Wednesdays and occasionally visits the Brookdale Warming Center. A full calendar of events is available here.

Although this may seem like a new concept, a mobile library has long been a tradition of middle GA. Library WOW is a continuation of the “bookmobile,” a Macon legacy that first began in 1939 as the first commercially built bookmobile in Georgia.

Ready to be WOW-ed?

Library WOW can be reserved by filling out a request form or by calling one of the Community Engagement Coordinators at 478-744-0878.

This story was originally published March 29, 2022 at 9:54 AM.