http://www.librarystuff.net The library weblog dedicated to resources for keeping current and professional development Fri, 30 Jan 2015 20:26:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1 http://www.librarystuff.net/2014/01/10/old-telephone-phone-booths-get-new-life-as-libraries/ http://www.librarystuff.net/2014/01/10/old-telephone-phone-booths-get-new-life-as-libraries/#comments Fri, 10 Jan 2014 13:36:51 +0000 http://www.librarystuff.net/?p=14428 “TWO Czechs have breathed new life into telephone booths made obsolete in the mobile phone age, converting them into mini libraries with the first one installed at a Prague hospital on Thursday. On the shelves of the red booth, patients of the IKEM hospital will find a plethora of genres, including works by US crime writer John Grisham, Czech and Russian titles and biographer Andrew Morton’s Diana: Her True Story. Library mastermind Monika Serbusova, 27, said she and a friend drew inspiration from a similar project in Britain.” (via News.com.au)

]]> http://www.librarystuff.net/2014/01/10/old-telephone-phone-booths-get-new-life-as-libraries/feed/ 0 http://www.librarystuff.net/2012/02/21/how-new-york-pay-phones-became-guerrilla-libraries/ http://www.librarystuff.net/2012/02/21/how-new-york-pay-phones-became-guerrilla-libraries/#comments Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:59:00 +0000 http://www.librarystuff.net/2012/02/21/how-new-york-pay-phones-became-guerrilla-libraries/ The Atlantic – “John Locke thinks people should read more. So in the past few months, the Columbia architecture grad has slipped around Manhattan with a sack of books and custom-made shelves, converting old pay phones into pop-up libraries.”

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