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Fusion Oakleigh Youth and Community Street Library
Fusion Street Library is located outside their playground community centre in Hughesdale, Victoria. They are passionate about connecting with their community and providing services like exercise and fitness classes, school holiday programs and youth activities....
Why make libraries a focus of travel? – Myf Warhurst – ABC Radio
Libraries have become a worldwide tourism destination, and for La Trobe University's Stuart Kells they are an island of humanity. Source: Why make libraries a focus of travel? - Myf Warhurst - ABC...
Port Macquarie-Hastings Council supports street library initiative | Wauchope Gazette
Keep your eye out for 10 new street libraries throughout the area. Source: Port Macquarie-Hastings Council supports street library initiative | Wauchope...
Pop-up street libraries sharing the joy of reading with Hunter communities – Breakfast – ABC Radio
Street libraries are sweeping the Hunter region - but, why has this idea become so popular? And what does it mean for local communities? Source: Pop-up street libraries sharing the joy of reading with Hunter communities - Breakfast - ABC...
Sarah Martin opens street library on Graham Street, Kendall | Camden Haven Courier
Sarah Martin says there's no excuse not to read - now the Kendall community has a Street Library Source: Sarah Martin opens street library on Graham Street, Kendall | Camden Haven...
Library Planet is a crowdsourced travel guide for libraries of the world
Library Planet is founded and edited by Christian Lauersen of Roskilde Libraries and Marie Engberg Eiriksson of Gladsaxe Libraries, Denmark. Check out https://libraryplanet.net/ a crowd source travel guide for libraries of the...
“I like that library books have secret lives. All those hands that have held them. All those eyes that have read them.”- Neela Vaswani
What a quotable quote! Imagine the secrets lives of all the Street Library Books..... Neela Vaswani is the author of the short story collection, Where the Long Grass Bends; the mixed-genre memoir, You Have Given Me a Country; the middle-grade novel, Same Sun Here...
St. John the Apostle Primary School Love their Street Library!
Jeanie McDonnell ( Family Liaison Officer) from St John the Apostle Primary school shares her schools Street Library story with us Tell us a bit about yourself, your school and the community you live in. Our school is St. John the Apostle Catholic Primary School in...
Our Fabulous Street Librarian of the month
I first heard about Street Libraries on Gardening Australia when the lovely Costa made one from an old safe. I really wanted to make one from recycled material, but eventually realised that my scrap happy skills weren't up to making a solid, weather proof place for...