Ogre Municipality's Bookmobile Marks 30 Years on the Road
The bookmobile service in Ogre Municipality has been running for 30 years. It is currently staffed by librarian Arma Krecere and driver Dzintars Balams.
A 12-metre-long bookmobile has been bringing books to readers across Ogre Municipality for 30 years. The mobile library service takes books to people close to where they live, and over its history it has been run by several different teams.
Before the current team, six librarians looked after the books and readers during the service's three decades, and five drivers sat behind the wheel. Librarian Arma Krecere and driver Dzintars Balams have worked on the bookmobile for the third year.
Krecere speaks about the vehicle as if it were a living being and calls it her favourite colleague. "This is my favourite colleague! He never grumbles and is always ready to go," she says. According to her, when the bookmobile gets sick, it is taken to the doctor, everything is fixed, and the journey continues.
Her other colleague is driver Dzintars Balams, whom she praises as a skilful driver, saying she feels completely calm sitting beside him. Krecere believes mutual trust is very important in this job.
The country roads are not always smooth or easy to travel, and the bookmobile has to carry not only books but the whole household of a library. Krecere herself needs little for the road, naming a croissant, coffee and water.
The rest of the story was published in the newspaper "Ogres Vēstis Visiem".
