GoLibrary or Library-a-Go-Go (Swedish: Bokomaten) is a book vending machine

Vending machine

A vending machine is a machine which dispenses items such as snacks, beverages, alcohol, cigarettes, lottery tickets, consumer products and even gold and gems to customers automatically, after the customer inserts currency or credit into the machine....

 used by libraries in Sweden and the U.S. state of California. The Contra Costa Library was the body that first brought these novel machines to the United States.

History

The machines were developed by the Swedish company Distec and are in use on the Bay Area Rapid Transit

Bay Area Rapid Transit

Bay Area Rapid Transit is a rapid transit system serving the San Francisco Bay Area. The heavy-rail public transit and subway system connects San Francisco with cities in the East Bay and suburbs in northern San Mateo County. BART operates five lines on of track with 44 stations in four counties...

 system at its Pittsburg/Bay Point

Pittsburg/Bay Point (BART station)

Pittsburg/Bay Point is a Bay Area Rapid Transit station in the town of Bay Point, California. As the terminal station of the Pittsburg/Bay Point - SFO Line, it serves all of northern and eastern Contra Costa County, including the cities of Pittsburg, Antioch, Oakley and Brentwood, as well as the...

, El Cerrito del Norte

El Cerrito del Norte (BART station)

El Cerrito del Norte, frequenly shorterned to del Norte, is one of two BART stations in El Cerrito, California, just east of the Cutting Boulevard interchange of Interstate 80 parallel to San Pablo Avenue and the Ohlone Greenway straddling the Richmond border. Del Norte opened to revenue service on...

, and Millbrae Station

Millbrae Station

Millbrae Station is an at-grade Bay Area Rapid Transit and Caltrain station located in suburban Millbrae, California, in northern San Mateo County.-Description:...

s. The Pittsburg and El Cerrito machines are operated by the Contra Costa Public Library System. That organization also has a machine at Sandy Cove Shopping Center in Discovery Bay, California

Discovery Bay, California

Discovery Bay is a census-designated place in extreme eastern Contra Costa County, California in the United States about from San Francisco. As of 2010, its population was 13,352....

 a town without a library. The machine in Millbrae is operated by the Peninsula Library System

Peninsula Library System

The Peninsula Library System is the public library organization serving San Mateo County, California, United States, which forms the bulk of the region within the San Francisco Bay Area known as "The Peninsula"...

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The Yuba County Library

Yuba County Library

Yuba County Library is a the library service for 70,000 people of Yuba County, California.-History:The library currently has one branch in Marysville. Yuba County Library also has a book mobile that travels to different areas to improve access to books. The library is planning on adding a GoLibrary...

which has only one outlet and a bookmobile plans to add a GoLibrary machine as well.