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Lonely Planet Hidden Libraries: The World's Most Unusual Book Depositories | Nancy Pearl, D. C. Helmuth

More #HiddenLibraries: #StreetBooks, a bicycle library for the unhoused in #PortlandOR.

An interview with founder Laura Moulton and patron (and coauthor) Ben Hodgson: https://lithub.com/the-creators-of-a-bicycle-powered-library-reflect-on-its-humb...

Public Radio: https://www.opb.org/article/2022/03/29/mobile-library-street-books-portland-peop...

Find out more and how to support them: https://streetbooks.org/

BookishMarginalia The story of a regular patron who disappeared and reappeared: https://youtu.be/-vPVb64nZps?si=lXYjGC9M3z7bXTF9

Loaners: The Making of a Street Library

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Dilara That's fantastic! (Well, obviously, it would be better if it wasn't needed 😔) 4w

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BookishMarginalia

Lonely Planet Hidden Libraries: The World's Most Unusual Book Depositories | Nancy Pearl, D. C. Helmuth

Another of the #HiddenLibraries since 2018: #LittleFreeLibrary in a Cottonwood Tree!

Learn more:
📰 https://www.columbian.com/news/2019/may/04/this-woman-turned-her-tree-stump-into...

Short vid:
💜 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G23-hG4PQjg

TheBookHippie It‘s so cute!!! I want one! 1mo

Suet624 So sweet. 1mo

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BookishMarginalia

Lonely Planet Hidden Libraries: The World's Most Unusual Book Depositories | Nancy Pearl, D. C. Helmuth

The first of the #HiddenLibraries is #ThePrisonLibraryProject

The PLP receives over 500 letters each week from inmates in more than 400 state and federal prisons, as well as detention centers across the United States.

?Guess what the most requested book is?

Learn more at: https://www.claremontforum.org/prisonlibraryproject

To donate books, visit the book registry at https://bookshop.org/wishlists/781c11ff778dfd09b89f3a3a9bddadb8ca28ae3a

Ruthiella I‘ve shopped many times at the used bookstore they run in Claremont. 👍 1mo

BookishMarginalia @Ruthiella Yey! 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 1mo

tpixie Interesting! 1mo

TieDyeDude I used to volunteer with Books Through Bars Philadelphia. These types of programs are great! 1mo

BookishMarginalia @TieDyeDude @tpixie 💜 1mo

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BookishMarginalia

Lonely Planet Hidden Libraries: The World's Most Unusual Book Depositories | Nancy Pearl, D. C. Helmuth

This reminds me of the library tales @WanderingBookaneer has to tell 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 #foreword — they are many and varied! Also: “Every library is valuable in its particular way, and each is an example of the role and importance of libraries in the community of humanity.”

tpixie @Graciouswarriorlibrarian Ha! I just noticed your new handle!! Love it. The heading of this chapter reminded me of you! 1mo

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BookishMarginalia

Lonely Planet Hidden Libraries: The World's Most Unusual Book Depositories | Nancy Pearl, D. C. Helmuth

Part 2 of the #toc #librarylove

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Purpleness

Libraries | Bjarne Hammer

My awesome co-worker randomly got me a shirt!

AnnCrystal 💖🦄🤩📚💖. 2mo

Ruthiella Sweet! 2mo

TheBookHippie So cute! 2mo

Arvena Awesome 2mo

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TheBookgeekFrau

Books! Books! Books!: Explore the Amazing Collection of the British Library | Mick Manning

Went to a book fair today at a local brewery. Such fun!

mcctrish Horse is soooo good 3mo

LiteraryHoarderPenny @mcctrish coming here to say the same! 🥰 3mo

TheBookgeekFrau @mcctrish @LiteraryHoarderPenny I've heard such things, and I Loved Year of Wonders and People of The Book so I was psyched to snatch up a copy of Horse! 2mo

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