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Bookmobile Torched in Nova ScotiaPolice in Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada, are treating as arson an early-morning fire that gutted the Cumberland Regional Library bookmobile December 19 and destroyed 1,000–1,500 books. The burning bookmobile, parked at the library’s Amherst branch, was discovered at 3:18 a.m. by police officers on routine patrol. The windows of a van owned by the library had also been smashed out. The bookmobile was to have been taken out of service within days and replaced with a book-by-mail service early in the new year. “We were going to use some of the books that were on the bus to begin that service,” Keith MacKinnon, assistant librarian, told the December 20 Halifax Herald. There were no estimates of how long the new service might be delayed. Posted December 25, 2000. |
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