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Julie writes and produces Audio Description projects for the National Park Service, develops and teaches graduate courses for science educators at the University of Wisconsin Green Bay, serves as a Humanities Expert for organizations working with the Wisconsin Humanities Council and continues biological field work concerning the monarch butterfly, pollination and nectar studies and Citizen Science collaborations.
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OBJECT HISTORY: Door County Bookmobile
The Door County Bookmobile was the rural public library. With many remote towns and islands, a low overall population, poor transportation, and low literacy rates, the Door Peninsula offered an opportunity to test the bookmobile model for extending rural library services.
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Creating the Door County Bookmobile
Door County Library Bookmobile service began in 1950 through a Wisconsin Free Library Commission experiment called the Door-Kewaunee Regional Library Demonstration. The Demonstration was developed to explore the possibilities of providing library service to remote areas of the state.