and small vans from the Highlands. Many of the vans were proudly carrying awards from previous meets." Since 1953, the Libraries of the Community of Madrid, Spain, have operated a program with books, DVDs, CDs, and other library materials available for checkout. A floating library, aboard the ship Epos, was begun in 1959 and serves the many small communities on the coast of Western Norway. In Estonia, the bookmobile "Katarina Jee" has been running since 2008, serving patrons in suburbs of Tallinn. In Finland, the first mobile library was established in Vantaa in 1913. There are currently about 200 bookmobiles in Finland, operating across the country. North America Street Books is a nonprofit book service founded in 2011 in Portland, Oregon, that travels via bicycle-powered cart to lend books to "people living outside". Books on Bikes is a program begun in 2013 by the Seattle Public Library that uses a customized bicycle trailer pulled by pedal power to bring library services to community events in Seattle. The Library Cruiser is a "book bike" from the Volusia County Libraries that debuted in Florida in September 2015. Library staff ride it to various locations, offering library books for checkout, as well as WiFi service, ebook access help, and information on obtaining a library card. South America The Biblioburro is a mobile library by which Colombian teacher Luis Soriano and his two donkeys, Alfa and Beto, bring books to children in rural villages twice a week. CNN chose Soriano as one of their 2010 Heroes of the Year. Gallery See also Digital library Traveling library Boat Libraries References Further reading An article on the history of the bookmobile in the US. Based on experiences while working on the Lancashire County Library mobile library service in the 1960s. . Vehicles by purpose Mobile libraries