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National Library Outreach Day 2025

Today is National Library Outreach Day (formerly known as National Bookmobile Day) and it’s pretty heartwarming to know there are still bookmobiles traveling the roads of America.

📖 Comes To Life 💡

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life. ~Norman Cousins

I’d have to say the only thing more exciting than a library is a library book sale.

Trying a book for two weeks is great, but keeping one you know you wouldn’t want to give back is phenomenal.

Our last haul was darned near enough to build a library of our own. I don’t think there’s a wall in our house that doesn’t have book shelves or even just stacked books.

Books are a thrill. They’re crystallized thought. They’re the effort of a team of people to bring an idea into substance.

Cook books, reference books, novels and anthologies are streaming services in paper form.

What would be truly amazing is to have the books come to you.

Obviously, you can get books delivered from Amazon or any other online vendor, but having the library actually pull up is a whole different level of exciting.

Mobile libraries? That’s the kind of world I want to be a part of.

🚐 Bookmobile 📚

‘It’s important to actually physically have a book’: Bookmobile provides needed literary access

As you can see from the video above, there are some communities that don’t have libraries. 😮*gasp*😮 That’s like having a community without running water. Just wow.

That’s not to say that there aren’t towns around here that don’t have libraries, but I’d be surprised if I could go more than 15 miles in any direction without finding at least a little one serving the surrounding community.

The good thing, despite the mobile librarian’s take in the video, is that books are accessible online in reader format or as audiobooks.

Even so, a digital library just doesn’t have the appeal of shelves of colorful book spines vying for your attention.

If I really want something to read or have read to me, a digital library is as good as anything.

If I know what I’m looking for and can find it on Project Gutenberg or through my state’s library network, that’s a plus.

If I don’t know what I’m looking for until I find it, a bookmobile presents that library feel of letting your eyes be drawn to Dewey Decimal stickers on professionally designed spines.

I’m not sure how many communities have these resources, but I hope there is still a healthy fleet of them from sea to shining sea.

🏡 Everything You Need 📚

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. ~Marcus Tullius Cicero

We have a garden and Kelly loves tending it. We definitely have a library and we both love adding to it.

As much as we enjoy adding to our library through library book sales and periodic online purchases, I really enjoy adding to our library through my own efforts.

Unfortunately, I still haven’t gotten The Lights of Pine Hollow formatted and published yet.

It’s been kind of a busy year at work, so I’ve been focused on getting more work done in my Sentinels series.

Gah! So much to do, so little time and energy.

At this point, The Sentinels: New Blood is ⅔ of the way done and I’ve been combing through the work for viable Collateral Impact tie-ins.

I was on a jag of milieu development for Tales Of Olde Auringia a while back, but I’ve been solely focused on getting Book 1 of 13 done.

Along with certain day job projects, I’ve been laser-focused on getting the current book done and ready for publishing.

I’m also allocating some time to get my monthlies done early so I have more time than I did last year for writing my as-yet-untitled Holiday Season Serial Romance.

In fact, it’s not only not titled yet, I have no earthly idea what this year’s story will be about. At some point, (presumably, when the monthlies are done) I’ll have some time and space to spin up a new Christmas RomCom out of nowhere.

Maybe we’ll go back to Wyoming Pass.

Maybe we’ll go back to Laurel Ridge.

Maybe we’ll stay in Pine Hollow to see how Chris and Mandy are getting on.

Who knows? You never can tell until I crack open a new writing project and see who wants to come out and play.

Eventually, I’d like to be prolific enough to occupy an entire bookshelf on a bookmobile, but there’s a lot of data that needs converting and it leaves me with precious little 🧠 juice to apply to my writing.

The Sentinels, my Holiday Season Serial Romances, the Collateral Impact anthologies, the mysterious Tales Of Olde Auringia and even the futuristic Far-Flung Reaches are all waiting to be written, formatted, printed and set on the shelves of a bookmobile near you…