Street Library Blog

Celebrating First Education a tutoring service who is passionate about learning and engaging their community. They recently launched four Street Libraries outside their centre's to encourage everyone in the neighbourhood to grab a book and maybe learn something new in...

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An editor discovers a masterpiece among a pile of rejected manuscripts. She tries to track down its unknown author, who may already be dead. Source: The Mystery of Henri Pick

The community library will have an outdoor rooftop reading terrace, commercial kitchen and auditorium. Source: Queen Victoria Market is building a three-storey community library

Hi. Vikki and Jim here. Our little street library is in Avonsleigh near Emerald, in Victoria (Puffing Billy turf!). We live on a pretty quiet dirt road, so we don't get as much foot traffic for the street library as we used to at our old address, (before we moved...

  Our Street Library is in East Brisbane's Gabba precinct. Gabba in Turrbal language simply means 'place' and we definitely feel that the library has added a sense of place to our neighbourhood. With the Olympics set to be hosted in our front yard it is so...

Artists give old books an amazing second life. Source: Art From Old Books • Insteading

Why do most people stop reading children’s books they loved once they come of age? Books from our childhood can still do so much good work for us. Source: Remember your favorite childhood books? Read them again.

Reading can be a safe harbour and a good self-care remedy in these anxious times. Source: The Novel Cure: How books can soothe what ails you | ArtsHub Australia

  Novelist Mark Billingham advises readers to angrily launch a book across the room after 20 non-gripping pages – but almost 40% of people will keep going right to the end Source: The 20-page rule: how much time should you give a devastatingly boring book?

Watch the "What does reading on screens do to our brains?" video at BBC Ideas. Explore other related content via our curated "The Open University" playlist. Source: What does reading on screens do to our brains? - BBC Ideas

Bullies Don't Hurt was due back at Salisbury Library in 2003 but arrived from Quebec last week. Source: Library book returned to UK from Canada 18 years late

  First things first. What makes a book cover iconic? There are no hard and fast rules, of course—like anything else, you know it when you see it. But in order to compile this list, I looked for reco… Source: The 25 Most Iconic Book Covers in History

You're not doing yourself any favors if you're in the 26 percent of American adults who haven't read even part of a book within the past year. Source: Why Reading Books Should Be Your Priority, According to Science

I first had the idea for a Street Library back in 2019 and because I publish children’s fiction and love reading and encouraging children to read, I decided it was time to put one up in our own front yard. Then with COVID, it was even more important to make sure that...

The Relationship Between Famous Writers & Their Cats   Writers Write is a resource for writers. We’ve put together a post on the relationship between famous writers and their cats. Writers and cats have always shared a special bond. Alison Nastasi has written...

    I work at The Agency Real Estate in sales and have always noticed that buyers make comments on homes that have Street Libraries nearby. It can be a symbol of a friendly and safe community.   We live in Naremburn and wanted to bring that same sense...