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This year is expected to set a record for the number of book bans by public school libraries, so many people are finding creative ways to ma
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This year is expected to set a record for the number of book bans by public school libraries, so many people are finding creative ways to ma
“We don’t have a library.” I was in a meeting with Karen Powell, principal of Montbello Career and Technical High School in Denver, CO. I had just told her about my new district-wide Diverse Books
The Little Free Library is a project from Stereotank: a freestanding, inverted plastic tank that you stick your head into in order to browse the books that are sheltered from the elements. It's been installed in New York's Nolita.
Phone booths don't really have a purpose anymore. But it's a hell of a job to remove them all and we all kinda like the sight of a traditional red British phone booth. So apparently in the UK there's a lot of neighbourhoods that turned their phone booths into mini-libraries, filled with books of friendly neighbours. Brilliant!
Here's a top 6 of UK pop-up libraries.
...and I'm still wondering how I truly feel about ebooks, and then there is this, and I'm still so confused. But, glad they're reaching out to people who might otherwise not read or find a certain book!