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TUSCALOOSA, Ala. –– Recreation vehicles usually roll
onto The University of Alabama campus on Thursdays before home
football games, but one Airstream isn’t coming to get an
early start on tailgating.
The School of Library and Information
Studies will sponsor projet
Mobilivre-Bookmobile project, an underground book and magazine
exhibition, on Thursday, Sept. 29 from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. outside
the main, north entrance of Amelia Gayle Gorgas Library.
Now in its fifth year, “projet Mobilivre,” or Bookmobile
project, in English, is an annual touring exhibition of independent
publications, magazines, and artists’ books traveling in
a vintage Airstream trailer across Canada and the United States.
A group of coordinators traveling with the exhibition facilitate
a series of workshops, artist talks and educational forums.
The projet Mobilivre-Bookmobile project explores the tradition
of bookmobiles as traveling libraries that promote the distribution
of information. Its traveling collection includes about 300 book
works ranging from handmade and one-of-a-kind to photocopied and
small press publications.
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