Plum Creek Library System
Encyclopedia
The Plum Creek Library System is a network of libraries
throughout southwestern Minnesota
, United States. It serves 25 city and 8 school libraries in nine counties. Each library is locally controlled, but they cooperate through interlibrary loans of materials, and a bookmobile
.
Library
In a traditional sense, a library is a large collection of books, and can refer to the place in which the collection is housed. Today, the term can refer to any collection, including digital sources, resources, and services...
throughout southwestern Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...
, United States. It serves 25 city and 8 school libraries in nine counties. Each library is locally controlled, but they cooperate through interlibrary loans of materials, and a bookmobile
Bookmobile
A bookmobile or mobile library is a large vehicle designed for use as a library. It is designed to hold books on shelves so that when the vehicle is parked the books can be accessed by readers. It usually has enough space for people to sit and read books inside. Mobile libraries are often used to...
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