#pop-up libraries

[qupritsuvwix]

Plot twist: Activists skirt book bans with guerrilla giveaways and pop-up libraries

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

[gwslibrarian]

Starting with a Pop-Up, a School Library Grows in Denver

“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

[doseogwan]

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.

[peterverse]

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.

[doseogwan]

...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!

[doseogwan]