Street Library Blog

Ngurang Learning Institute a nonprofit organisation is bringing change one book at a time. They started their movement on August 30th, 2020 (during the pandemic, having been inspired by a young librarian in Mizoram state. They have built 7 Street Libraries so far in...

Istanbul Modern Library is actually an installation by Richard Wentworth called “False Ceiling”

A women-focused project articulating shared aspirations, values and wants for their community, led by artist Linda Brescia. Source: Linda Brescia: Skirts | MCA Australia

  How to become an “antischolar” in a culture that treats knowledge as “an ornament that allows us to rise in the pecking order.” Source: Umberto Eco’s Antilibrary: Why Unread Books Are More Valuable to Our Lives than Read Ones

Meet Street Librarian Debbie who runs Westbrook Wise Owl Street Library. You never know what literary delights await you in this teeny weeny Street Library, serendipity is the magic word here! Making this Street Library come to life has been a long-term goal for me...

Adrian Piccoli our wonderful Street Library patron shares his love of books with us. Professor Adrian Piccoli is Director of UNSW’s Gonski Institute for Education. The Gonski Institute was established in 2018 with a mission to address growing inequality in Australian...

Council would like to thank all the children and volunteers who helped establish 11 new street libraries throughout the City. The Kids Street Libraries project promotes the benefits of reading for kids, from newborns to 12 year olds. When we asked children to help us...

More than 150 years before Oprah and Reese Witherspoon, women began reading together in groups, seeking wisdom from the books and from one another. Source: How women invented book clubs, revolutionizing reading and their own lives

  I’ve been interested in setting up a Street Library for a while so I was very excited when the kit came in the mail. My main motivation was to be able to share new books that I have purchased, quickly read and then dismiss to a far away bookshelf. By saying new...

Naracoorte South primary School hopes to help foster a love of reading in the local Naracoorte community with their new street library. Source: Naracoorte South Primary shares the love of reading with community

The 'street library' showcases India-2020 of late President A P J Abdul Kalam and compilation of Khalil Gibran or the world's greatest short stories. Source: Army converts bus stand to ‘street library’ for J&K children

  The long read: In a town under siege from Assad’s regime, a small group of revolutionaries found a new mission: to build a library from books rescued from the rubble. For those stranded in the city, books offered an imaginative escape from the horrors of war...

Core team of 15 staff and thousands of volunteers and partners help the country-music philanthropist deliver books to kids around the world. Source: Turning Pages: Inside Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library

  Scrolling may work for social media, but experts say that for school assignments, kids learn better if they slow down their reading. Source: How Children Read Differently From Books vs. Screens

One in five of all our students fail to achieve minimum levels of reading or maths. That’s shocking. Source: The terrible truth about reading rates in Australia (and how to fix them)

The best thing is that it’s completely free, it takes just 10-15 minutes a day, and anyone can do it. Source: It's science: Reading aloud to your kids makes them smarter and kinder

Thursday Book Club is a relaxed place to talk books and writing. I’ll discuss what I’ve been reading (and writing), we’ll share book recommendations and I’ll keep you informed of upcoming literary events. Drop in as you can – it doesn’t matter if you’re late or have...

My name is Karri McPherson and I'm a Visual Artist based in the Hunter Valley. I specialise in creating geometric, abstract artworks and in my practice I bounce between studio work, mural commissions, public art installations and digital art. I came to designing a...

  Reading is among the great loves of my life. Discovering books has brought untold happiness and joy, introduced me to the world of words, ideas and imagination and, at times, steadied my floundering ship. I was the girl who tried to read every book in the...

  WHO WE ARE Bobby B. Frog is a virtual visitor to Little Libraries and Street Libraries around the world. He has appeared in over 180 illustrations documenting his travels. I am Mrs. K, his illustrator. THE TOUR BEGINS As a preschool teacher in Vienna, Virginia,...