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Creative ways to decorate your home with old books
Decorate your house in style using old books. Wondering how? Read these eight interesting and creative ways to decorate your home with old books. Source: Creative ways to decorate your home with old books
Adopt a Book and a Cat in These Purr-fect Bookstores
Plan your next road trip with this purr-fect guide to bookstores with adoptable cats across the U.S. and Canada. Source: Adopt a Book and a Cat in These Purr-fect Bookstores
10 Amazing Pieces of Furniture Made From Books
Post by @AngelaWeir4. Source: 10 Amazing Pieces of Furniture Made From Books
Duchess of Cornwall leaves copies of favourite books inside phone box Street Library
Snaps shared on Instagram showed the Duchess of Cornwall beaming as carried her contributions inside the converted phone box in Abergeldie. Source: Duchess of Cornwall leaves copies of favourite books inside phone box
Penang’s old phone booths get a new ring as pop-up libraries
In George Town, a community initiative transforms derelict phone booths into colourful 'pocket libraries' Source: Penang's old phone booths get a new ring as pop-up libraries
Bucks’ smallest library? Iconic red telephone box transformed into book exchange
A classic red phone box has been transformed into a book exchange library in a small Bucks village. Source: Bucks' smallest library? Iconic red telephone box transformed into book exchange
Street Library in Jerusalem
World Book Day: Street library in Jerusalem Source: World Book Day: Street library in Jerusalem
17 Quizzes For Huge Book Worms
Don't mind me, I'm just taking a break from reading my book to take 100 quizzes. Source: 17 Quizzes For Huge Book Worms
Meet Rachael the Street Librarian who loves sharing books with her community
My name is Rachael, and myself along with our two resident black cats, who love to keep a consistent eye on things, are the ones behind our Coorumbung Rd Street Library. For a long time, I have loved the idea of having a Street Library and was thrilled to open one...
These Women Rode Miles on Horseback Just to Deliver Library Books
Librarians are amazing. Source: These Women Rode Miles on Horseback Just to Deliver Library Books
The History Of Bookmobiles
From its inception in the 1800s to the library and bookstore bookmobiles still operating today, here is the history of bookmobiles. Source: The History Of Bookmobiles | Book Riot
The Paint The Ridge REaD Dhinawan Street Library
In the lead up to this event the Dhinawan who lives at Little Diggers Preschool and Child Care Centre visited services in our community… the Lightning Ridge Central School, Youth Centre, Walanbaa Dhurrali, Lightning Ridge Preschool, and the LR Play Group…...
Sharing the Joy of Reading
Help Hannah a Year 11 student researching Street Libraries
I’m Hannah and I’m a secondary school student from Adelaide. I have always had a love for reading and you can often find me curled up on the weekend with my favourite book. For school, I am undertaking a project and my passion for reading sparked the idea to create a...
10 Signs You’re A Bibliophile, Because So What If You Like Books More Than People?
When I moved from Southern California to Montreal last year—a journey of almost 3,000 miles—I knew I had to pack light. So I sold all of my furniture, purged my closet, and got rid of anything that wasn’t absolutely essential to my daily life. Then… Source: 10 Signs...
Selecting a perfect reading spot
London’s ‘most beautiful’ library that looks like a ‘mini Vatican City’ and is free to visit
It's considered the finest 18th Century interior anywhere in the British Isles The library is just gorgeous (Photo English Heritage/Heritage Images/Getty Images) It's not everyday you get to see something absolutely breathtaking for free, but there's one place in...
Mobile library Street Books feeds literary passions
For more than a decade, librarians with the nonprofit mobile library Street Books have been biking around Portland bringing books directly to people who live outdoors. Now, two of its street librarians, founder Laura Moulton and former patron Ben Hodgson, have...
This Turkish library is shaped like a shelf of giant books.
Here’s something wonderful: Karabuk University’s library, in Karabuk, Turkey, is designed to look like a row of large books on a shelf. It’s so cheerful—and there is a pleasure and clarity in… Source: This Turkish library is shaped like a shelf of giant books.
Mumbai: Senior citizens set up free library on Mulund footpath to promote reading
Anyone can pick up a book of their choice from the library at Khandoba Mandir and take it away for free after writing down their name and contact number on a register, and return it later. Source: Mumbai: Senior citizens set up free library on Mulund footpath to...
Reading Club 2000 – Manila, Philippines
Reading Club 2000 is a community reading center in Bangketa sa Barrio La Paz that is open 24/7 to everybody who loves to read and learn. The Reading Club 2000 which is a free-for-all public library like no other: it lets anyone borrow and then bring back or keep any...
Bibliothèque Nationale de France
With four glass towers shaped like half-open books, the National Library of France, opened in 1995, was one of President Mitterrand’s most ambitious and costliest projects. Some 12 million tomes are stored on 420km of shelves and the library can accommodate 2000...
Meet Luis Soriano, the Spanish teacher bringing books to children in rural Colombia by donkey
For the past 25 years, the biblioburro – or donkey library – has changed the lives of hundreds of children Source: Meet Luis Soriano, the Spanish teacher bringing books to children in rural Colombia by donkey
Meet Jess our April Street Librarian of the Month
Henson Street Library was given to Jess as a flat pack kit version of The Shed for my 30th birthday. She is an avid reader with a very strong passion for circular economy and community engagement. You will find her Street Library on Henson Street in Marrickville,...
Reading in the garden – Tom Gauld cartoon
Street Library School Fundraiser Program
Are you are looking for a fast, simple and profitable fundraising program for your school? Do you wish to engage and give everyone access to books in your community? Start a Street Library school fundraising program at your school. It is guaranteed to put a smile on...
Meet Toni a Street Library Hunter
I started visiting my local street libraries after an end of year clear out left me with about 30 books that I wanted to donate. In trying to find out where I could donate them I learned that there are about 80 street libraries within a two hour drive of home! So, I...
The three literary pigs and the bibliophile wolf
Neighbour Day
Help address loneliness across Australia and build the communities you want to live in, one relationship at a time. Source: Neighbour Day
Book Bikes – Girls Reading to Succeed
This Project will run a bicycle library in 6 low income communities of Lahore, Pakistan and will provide a rich supply of books to 300 children on average. This is an action to bring smiles to children stuck at home in times of covid; battling mental stress,...
