This wouldn't be much of a newspaper if it didn't champion the cause of reading. That's why it was a relief to see a timely donation arrive last week to keep the Allegheny County bookmobile running.
The library-on-wheels, which was about to be a casualty of a tight county budget, got a reprieve when Citizens Bank, the region's newest financial institution, provided the $100,000 needed to keep it rolling.
A service of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and the Allegheny County Library Association, the bookmobile delivers good reading to patrons at stops in 19 communities, most of which lack access to a local public library. It has also expanded its audience, not to mention value, over the years by pulling up at senior citizen facilities and supplying story books to Head Start Centers.
Citizens Bank, which entered the Mid-Atlantic market after purchasing Mellon's retail branches last year, pledged to have a philanthropic presence in Pittsburgh along with a financial one. Its bookmobile rescue makes good on that promise.
Now, if only someone would save the Pittsburgh Film Office . . .
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