Street Library Blog

The quiet library - Moore Street Library, Vaucluse/Watsons BayIn March 2017, the Moore Street Library kicked off by simply putting the street library out, stacked with a variety of books. It always been a diverse library of books to share – fiction, literature,...

Anytime Fitness Winston Hills is more than just a gym that focuses on physical fitness. We like to engage and support our local community to focus on health as a whole, which includes having a positive mindset, good nutrition and feelings of belonging. This is why we...

AGEN.Z is a design team consisting of five students from the University of Technology Sydney- Alex Woodward, Gillian Co, Emma-Jane Lancaster, Napha Sinxayvoravong, and Zohal Sidiqi. As part of the UTS Shopfront Community Program, which pairs student teams with...

Twice a month a humble council hall on Sydney's lower north shore is transformed into The Repair Cafe. It's an outfit run by volunteers committed to stopping everyday items going to landfill. Source: The Repair Cafe

Inspired by her father's inability to read, the country singer founded the Imagination Library to help kids develop a love of books and reading. Source: Why Dolly Parton Has Devoted Her Life to Helping Children Read

If the idea of settling in for the night with a good book and a drink – a hot chocolate if it’s cold, a glass of something chilled if it’s hot – sounds like heaven, then Iceland’s Christmas Eve Jólabókaflóðið (roughly, “flood of books”) tradition is for you. Source:...

People who never learned to read and write may be at increased risk for dementia. Source: The Brain Benefits of Reading and Writing

A French theater director crowdsourced his dream. Source: What It's Like to Build and Operate a Tiny Traveling Bookshop

The Italian city is reeling from a week in which floodwaters damaged the city's cultural legacy, as well as homes and businesses. Volunteers are helping salvage precious books, among other items. Source: After Venice Floods, Volunteers Wade In To Help Salvage What...

As the TV adaptation of Philip Pullman’s epic fantasy His Dark Materials reaches our screens, one writer tells how the trilogy changed her life Source: Why the books we read as children are the ones that shape our psyche

As the business booms, narrators talk tricky accents, lonely shifts and tackling 100 pages a day Source: 'Your throat hurts. Your brain hurts': the secret life of the audiobook star

Finland’s most ambitious library has a lofty mission, says Helsinki’s Tommi Laitio: It’s a kind of monument to the Nordic model of civic engagement. Source: How Helsinki Built ‘Book Heaven’

Source: At a unique Sydney bookshop, multilingual storytellers are keeping languages alive

We love seeing Street Libraries popping up all around Australia.Here is your chance to celebrate them by nominating a Street Library in your community. They will go into the draw to win amazing prizes from Etsy, Oxfam, and local shops around us. Why not tell your...

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‘It makes sense,’ ACT minister says of library change to take effect from 21 November Source: Canberra's libraries join nationwide trend of scrapping fines for late books

Some of the world's most beloved literary classics humorously summed up in 10 words or less. Source: Funny Brief Summaries Give a Shortcut to Classic Literature

“More salt,” says Natalie Saitta, as she checks the water in the big pot of pasta bubbling away on a portable burner. Beside her, Mary Ianni nods, as the two of them test whether the penne is al dente yet. Behind them, two more women are slicing bread and...

The horseback librarians were mostly made up of women. They were paid salaries by the Works Progress Administration. Source: Female Librarians on Horseback Delivering Books, ca. 1930s