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Sterling Heights Public Library unveils low-cost mobile outreach bookbox to visit parks and events
Summary
Sterling Heights Public Library showed council a new mobile library — a boxed, wrapped trailer mounted on a city tractor bed — that will distribute free books and promote library services at parks, trails and city events starting this summer.
Sterling Heights unveiled a new mobile library outreach program May 6, a lower-cost alternative to a traditional bookmobile that the library will pilot at summer events and weekly park locations.
Library Director Tammy Turgeon described the mobile library as a removable box built for the bed of a John Deere tractor maintained by the city’s facilities team. "The box has shelving to store free books, program…
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