BookCycle

Welcome to BookCycle, a citizen library located in Waterloo Town Square. BookCycle is free for all members of the public to use. Leave a book, take a book, enjoy, share, donate, borrow, return, and bookcycle your books to this community building effort in the heart of the city Contact us: [email protected]

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we hope you read many excellent books this holiday season (see you in the spring)

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"Print Lives" in The Cord

Special thanks to Tegan Thuss for featuring BookCycle (and our friends KW Little Free Library) in this recent article in The Cord Community Edition!

Plans for 2014 have already started....

http://www.community.thecord.ca/print-lives/

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via sci-universe

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Happy Halloween! Grab a book from the BookCycle trunk in the square until tomorrow, Oct 31st

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All good things must come to an end (until next summer...)

BookCycle's last day in Waterloo Town Square, for 2013, will be October 31st

This citizen library has been SO WELL RECEIVED that we're already discussing a summer 2014 installation. Stay posted for news on that.

What did you like? What did you LOVE? What would you like to see done differently with literacy in your community? Let us know: [email protected]

(we try to check emails as frequently as possible)

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- the BookCycle team 

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A special THANK YOU to all BookCycle 2013 donors

Many many individuals (both anonymous and public), community groups and citizens walking through Waterloo Town Square contributed to BookCycle this summer

To those of you we know by name, we thank you for your generous book donations to this initiative

Al Rickard

Heather Kelly

Harold, Catt, and the Preston Scout House Alumni Band

Jude Doble

Kristen and the staff at Words Worth Books

Lori Fraser

The Kruger Family

The Peters Family

The Meldazy Family

To those of you who chose to remain anonymous, our heartfelt "thank you" is boundless! 

The books have been enjoyed by many and a positive impact felt across the city. The BookCycle collective is still doing our final guesstimate tally on how many books we received and were traded this summer. 

Did you leave a book? Please let us know: [email protected]

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BookCycle on Red Leather Booth

Last week BookCycle was profiled on the Kitchener-Waterloo arts website Red Leather Booth

A special thank you to Jude for speaking with us for this article!

http://redleatherbooth.com/2013/08/06/gena-meldazy/

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Thank you for the donations: Preston Scout House Alumni Band

A very special Thank You to the Preston Scout House Alumni Band for their incredible donation to BookCycle. Multiple slab boxes full of wonderful books, enough to fill the back of this car! Tons of children's books, hardcover, paperbacks, and more.

The Preston Scout House Alumni Band is celebrating their 75th anniversary this year. The group includes over 200 regular and associate members, which means it's one of the largest organizations of this kind in Canada.

These books will be enjoyed by countless people around the community. We're really excited to have received such a generous donation!

From

- the BookCycle team

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If you donated to BookCycle, let us know!

Did you donate books to BookCycle this summer? Let us know so we can include your name on the forthcoming 'Thank You' list to all who participated in 2013. The list isn't static, and we'll update as we go.

This is our way of publicly recognizing all individuals who so enthusiastically self organized to trade books in Waterloo. Your support gave this citizen library voice, shape, and allowed it to take root in the community.

You showed that something like this IS possible and IS valuable for neighbourhoods. Best of all, it can happen again (we're hoping that BookCycle will have a Year 2, but that's for another blog post)

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BookCycle initiative born out of Occupy movement

It’s a small step toward providing access to literature for everyone in the community.

Thank you to Paige Desmond from the Waterloo Record for chatting with us and featuring BookCycle in this article!

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Love Calvin and his smart aleck comments!

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There are (or were) some classic Calvin and Hobbes in the BookCycle trunk a week or two ago. If you're the lucky person who got them....

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Ashley added handmade bookmarks to some of the books in BookCycle yesterday. We may make more with a different design if there's demand, so let us know what you think!

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Thanks for all these citizen photos! Keep sending 'em 

There is a lot of literacy activism happening in Kitchener-Waterloo right now. Check out the great article about our friends at KW Little Libraries

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"There isn’t a daily paper or a gossip magazine in sight, and almost no one looks up when a curious commuter asks, “What is this place?”

This place is the Newsstand, a pop-up shop that has transformed an ordinary subway space into a store for independently published magazines, books, comics and zines. In a digitalized world, it is a small haven for printed media." (via No Porn, Just Books and Zines - NYTimes.com)

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We love!

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BookCycle found in Waterloo Square

Found the BookCycle trunk today in Waterloo Square. Love this idea.

Added a book: Victory Meat by Lynn Coady.

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For Official Release.....

BookCycle, a volunteer-driven literacy curatorial collective to bring together art and reading for the public, debuted their first installation in Waterloo Town Square this week.

BookCycle is a citizen library, a station that allows access to books whenever – and however – residents of the region would like. 

Centered around the growth of similar projects worldwide, BookCycle is free for all members of the public to use 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and will remain in Waterloo Town Square for the remainder of the summer.

With the generous support of the City of Waterloo, community members are invited to leave books at the station, take books from it, swap books with others they meet, or simply borrow a book from it while in Waterloo Town Square.

In an age of digital media sharing and pervasive mobile technology, affordable and reliable access to information is still a barrier for many.  BookCycle’s purpose, providing free books for residents of the region, highlights the need for dialogue on issues of access with this community focused art installation.

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  About BookCycle:

BookCycle is an entirely volunteer driven initiative and collective in Waterloo, Ontario. Organized and curated by Gena Meldazy, Carmen Peters (artist in residence), and Ashley Kruger, BookCycle can be reached at [email protected]

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Leave a book, take a book

Welcome to BookCycle, a citizen library located in Waterloo Town Square.

BookCycle is free for all members of the public to use. Leave a book, take a book, enjoy, share, donate, borrow, return, and bookcycle your books to this community building effort in the heart of the city

BookCycle is curated by:

Gena Meldazy, Ashley Kruger, and Carmen Peters

.... with the generous support of the City of Waterloo

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A retrospect album of "the making of Bookcycle", a citizen library in the heart of Waterloo Town Square