Culture Perth and Kinross is asking the public to name its three mobile library vans to mark the 100th anniversary of the service.
After a century the mobile library continues to bring books and more to local communities, with three vans making over 100 stops across the region every two weeks and travelling tens of thousands of miles each year.
The service has been operating since 1921 with the original mobile library a converted Ford van.
The first library van held between 800 and 900 books, visited towns and villages across the region.
Mobile library drivers Omar, Ted and Scott (a previous mobile library champion) are familiar faces to many, having brought books to more than one generation.
And now as part of a competition to celebrate the milestone, Culture Perth and Kinross is asking the public to come up with “creative and fun suggestions” for the vans, adding that “Booky McBookface is too obvious”.
Chief executive of Culture Perth and Kinross Helen Smout said: “Our mobile library service has been a much-loved feature of rural life in the region for a century now.
“It is a success thanks to the customers who use them and the communities that support them.
“For the 100th year of the service, the oldest and first in the UK, we’re delighted to be giving our customers the chance to have some fun and share their creative ideas of more fitting names for our three current vehicles, currently only known as mobiles one, two and three.
“The three individuals that come up with the new names for our vans will be rewarded some fantastic prizes.”
