From Dayton to Chillicothe, Ohio’s bookmobiles are on a rollHOLMES COUNTY, Ohio (The Ohio Newsroom) — The truck parked outside Stony Point Hardware in rural Holmes County one sunny summer day wasn’t loaded with tools or heavy equipment. Ohio’s bookmobile historyOhio’s history with bookmobiles goes back to the late 1800s, when the State Library of Ohio created a traveling program . In 1923, Dayton librarian Electra Collins Doren launched one of the earliest motorized bookmobiles to operate in an urban area. Reaching rural readersIn other parts of Ohio, bookmobiles continue to serve their original purpose: bringing reading material to people who might otherwise struggle to reach the local library. In eastern Ohio’s Belmont County, the local library recently restarted a bookmobile program after more than a decade without one.