However, the legacy that the book women or packhorse librarians left behind led to support for public libraries, one of which is the federal funding in 1957 to the Kentucky Department of Libraries which allowed it to resume the services left behind by the packhorse librarians in 1943.Boyd...
Where do you get your books? Imagine your librarian delivered them personally to your door as JoJo Moyes’ Kentucky packhorse librarians do in her latest novel –The Giver of Stars. Chronicling the real story of Appalachian women in the WPA (Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration), Moyes cr...
It was “a distressing picture of library conditions and needs in Kentucky,” wrote Lena Nofcier, who chaired library services for the Kentucky Congress of Parents and Teachers at the time… Unlike many New Deal projects, the packhorse plan required help from locals. “Libraries” were housed ...
This dissertation investigates the role of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Packhorse Library Program in the emergence of the written word in rural Eastern Kentucky during the years of the Great Depression. Specifically, this examination places packhorse libraries into the broader context of ...