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Reading classic novels 'frees emotions and imagination' and can boost your brain power, says Professor Philip Davis of the University of Liverpool. They improve quality of life instead of self-help books. Source: Classic novels can improve your quality of life,...

“There are times when dreams sustain us more than facts. To read a book and surrender to a story is to keep our very humanity alive.” Source: A 100-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor on How Books Save Lives

In this week's History & Heritage column, Molly Hone discusses a picture of readers in the Main Library's garden from 1935. Source: History & Heritage: Lazy days of summer, 1935

Feeling that the school system had not done enough to motivate kids to read, Antonio La Cava bought a used Ape motorbike in 2003 and rigged it to hold a mobile library. Source: Mobile Library Spreads the Joy of Reading in Southern Italy | The Vale Magazine

Add a bit of Whimsical wonder to your day with these gorgeous mobile libraries. They’re bringing reading back, yeah! Source: 10 Must See Mobile Libraries - Tinyme Blog

Ever wonder how slang terms originate and spread or stay regional? We're taking a look at the evolution of slang and what part the internet plays. Source: The Art of the Vulgar Tongue: The Evolution of Slang

If you could place any book in a Street Library, what would it be and why?They'd be the books I have to hand, and the ones I placed in the street library we began in the valley after the bushfires here a few months ago. It's on the Araluen Hall veranda, with hand...

If you could put any book in a Street Library, what would it be and why?  One fish two fish red fish blue fish by Dr Seuss. A wonderful book full of the most delightful nonsense imaginable (and unimaginable!). Wonderful rhymes, great pictures and suitable for...

The finishing touches have been added to an impressive interior space inside an old railway station in Tilburg, rebirthing it as an "urban living room" known as the LocHal Library. In reality, its a co-working space, library and cultural center rolled into one, styled...

Which is why we should spend more time in them Source: Good Things Happen in Book Stores

Source: The 10 Most Unconventional Bookstores In The World

KARACHI: Authorities in Pakistan’s southern port city of Karachi on Wednesday inaugurated the country’s first street library in a bid to foster love of reading and project a soft image of the city. Source: Karachi opens street library on Quaid-e-Azam Day

A new book reveals 50 distinctive terms from around the world, including a Swedish word meaning ‘the road-like reflection of the moon on water’. Source: Lost in Translation: Words with incredible meanings

Celebrating our Street Library patron, award-winning author Candice Fox. Which book would you place in a Street Library and why? John Connolly's Every Dead Thing. Such a dark and grisly beginning to a very gothic mashup between the crime and supernatural genres. It...

Lulu has a sister! Visitors to the iconic mural of "Lulu on her Bike", on the corner of Gildercliffe Street and Pingrup Lane, Scarborough (WA), can now see "Little Lulu" and benefit from a Street Library at the same time. Local resident Annie and her husband Kim...

Which is why we should spend more time in them Source: Good Things Happen in Book Stores

Its creator—and resident—brings literature to small towns whose booksellers have shuttered Source: This Tiny Traveling Bookstore Wanders the French Countryside

The bookwheel helps readers browse eight texts at once. The only problem? It weighs 600 pounds. Source: How Students Built a 16th-Century Engineer's Book-Reading Machine

Instead of just giving them away or letting them gather dust, one artist has found a way to turn old books into objects of art that will last forever. Source: Artist Transforms Old Books into Crystallized Objects - Nerdist

Here at Cool Librarian Choir, their ethos is - "if you can speak you can sing" - and now there are a group of librarians getting in on the singing fun too https://www.facebook.com/coolchoircanada/videos/306531666824788

Stories, the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) believes, are what keep us connected. It is for this reason that the Foundation have created a virtual book recommendation challenge - the #GreatStorySwap, where people from all walks of life, including the passionate...