Nicola Cowmeadow, the local history officer for Perth and Kinross Council, said the first mobile library looked well organised. She said: "Someone has given it a lot of thought. They have planned it all out, and the books are all there for people to pick and to choose." Of course, this would have been part of a wider feeling to get people in rural areas access to books. "So this would have been a delivery van really, which would have taken books out to a centre.