Update from Venezuela Venezuela's four-legged mobile libraries.

Venezuela's four-legged mobile libraries. BBC. Online August 2007. A university in Venezuela is using a novel method to take books into remote communities and encourage people to read. … bibliomulas (book mules) and they are helping to spread the benefits of reading to people who are isolated from much of the world around them. … “We want to install wireless modems under the banana plants so the villagers can use the internet," says Robert Ramirez, the co-ordinator of the university's Network of Enterprising Rural Schools. "Imagine if people in the poor towns in the valley can e-mail saying how many tomatoes they'll need next week, or how much celery."The farmers can reply telling them how much they can produce. It's blending localisation and globalisation."…