Brodart is made up of three divisions: Books & Automation, Contract Library Furniture, and Supplies & Furnishings.
Brodart was established as Library Service in 1939, when Columbia University Electrical Engineering student Arthur Brody, the son of pharmacy owners and owners of the Bro-Delle Book Shoppe in Newark, New Jersey, invented the plastic book jacket.
[1][2][3] Brody washed the emulsion off some film and folded it around his books for added protection.
It acquired the California stores of the Oregon-based J. K. Gill Company in the first half of 1980, and in September 1980 acquired the entire J. K. Gill company, which had 36 stores and about 500 employees in four western states.
The show outlined a young girl suffering from cerebral palsy who had a wish to bring a library to her small Ohio town.