Editing Key West (section)

====="Spoonbill"=====
In 1961, the Monroe County Library System sponsored a bookmobile, "Spoonbill", to service the entire Keys.<ref name="LitRolls">{{Cite web|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/115932306|title = Literature Rolls into Florida Keys| id={{ProQuest|115932306}} }}</ref> By 1962, "Spoonbill" was making stops in ten different Keys, over {{convert|100|mi|spell=in}}, from Key Largo in the North to Key West in the South.<ref name="LitRolls"/> Mrs. Barbara Banning was the driver-librarian, driving over {{convert|25000|mi}} in the first year and a half, circulating more than 28,000 titles.<ref name="LitRolls"/>

On Mondays, the "Spoonbill" would be loaded with books in Key West and Banning and her assistant, or volunteer, would drive up to Key Largo, Tavernier, and Islamorada, stopping for an hour in each location; Wednesdays the "Spoonbill" made stops in Marathon, Big Pine, Little Torch, and Summerland.<ref name="LitRolls"/>

On Thursdays, the "Spoonbill" would only travel {{convert|20|mi|spell=in}} from home base, making stops in Bay Point, Big Coppitt, and Gulf Rest. At Bay Point there was a popular children's story hour, servicing roughly three hundred school-age children and led by former kindergarten teacher, Mrs. Ernest Hense.<ref name="LitRolls"/>