The Bookmobile

Bookmobile Schedule

The W-TCPL first instituted bookmobile service in 1938. Today, the bookmobile travels to 50 different locations around Trumbull County. A driver and a library specialist are on board the bookmobile every weekday visiting housing complexes, preschool centers, and rural neighborhoods. Last year 14,406 people visited the bus.

The bookmobile uses an automated circulation system that connects in real time to the library's main computer system. Bookmobile staff can place reserves and make interlibrary loan requests for materials not available on the bookmobile. The bookmobile circulated 113,471 items last year, making it the third busiest W-TCPL service location.

The interior of the bookmobile is spacious and bright with a large selection of books, magazines, and movies.

The Warren-Trumbull County Public Library bookmobile has an overall height of 12 feet, and a raised roof gives customers additional head room and also provides space for extra shelving. The bus holds approximately 3,500 books, magazines, DVDs, videotapes, and audio cassettes, including an expanded selection of fiction titles, audio books, and movies.

Graphic designer Joyce Polenick of Warren coordinated the look of the bookmobile's "Driven to Read" theme, working with local artist Rick Muccio to customize the artwork that was painted on the vehicle's exterior.