(21 Oct 2025) National Library Board (NLB) has launched its new mobile Nodes on ten bus services across Singapore, bringing stories and learning resources to commuters on the move. Passengers simply need to scan the QR codes onboard to access the comics and NLB’s eResources through the NLB Mobile app. Commuters can dive into Talkdog and Utama the Sage Slayer, with…
(12 Mar 2025) Prime Minister Hun Manet has called on local authorities to set up mobile libraries to promote reading across Cambodia. Speaking at the graduation ceremony of Vanda Institute yesterday, Mr. Hun Manet also urged provincial administrations to create public spaces, especially in urban areas and parks, in each province where a mobile…
(30 March 2018, HCM City) More than 7,000 primary and secondary school students in HCM City are expected to benefit from better access to English and Vietnamese books, online and multimedia facilities, and other library resources by 2020 with the launch of the second phase of the Words on Wheels mobile digital library programme yesterday.…
(13 November 2017, Jakarta) Singapore’s Minister for Communications and Information, Dr Yaacob Ibrahim, and Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono X, the 10th ruler of Yogyakarta, on Monday (Nov 13) launched the Words on Wheels (WoW) mobile library programme in the Indonesian city. The initiative is a partnership between the Singapore International Foundation (SIF) and Yogyakarta’s Provincial Government Board…
(10 November 2017, Ankara) Turkey’s state-run aid agency has provided a mobile library to a foundation in Myanmar in an effort to boost educational efforts in the country. In a written statement, the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) said Myanmar’s Daw Khin Kyi Foundation was given a mobile library equipped with steel shelfs and…
(December 2015) A mobile library project aims to improve access to books for children in remote and impoverished northern Thailand, where most families have few books at home and children are eager to learn. Unicef has the story by Heamakarn Sricharatchanya.
(8 September 2015) Books are out of reach for many Cambodians, writes Katie Wudel. But nearly a third own mobile devices. So it makes sense to start thinking of reading material as mobile, too. Check out this slideshow to find out how The Asia Foundation’s Books for Asia program, in partnership with Library For All, is seeking scalable solutions to…
(15 July 2015) A humble donkey library bringing books to small children in Ethiopia is set to be a casualty of Australia’s $11.3 billion overall cuts to foreign aid. The mobile library on the outskirts of is Addis Ababa is part of an Australian-funded Plan International child development project helping 1,572 children. The donkeys are…
(20 June 2015, Pyay, Myanmar) A crowd of children reach for books on a full shelve and start reading their selections on sheets and benches placed in the shade of trees on a school ground. In early April, the “mobile library on wheels,” operated by a local public library, arrived at this elementary school in…
(4 December 2014) Propping a wooden bird house filled with books on the back of his bike, Yan Defeng cycles around Zhengzhou in central China’s Henan province, eager to find a home for his fourth Bird’s Nest library. The clever book exchange allows participants to take a free book from the nest and replace it…