{"id":2322,"date":"2010-09-10T09:04:10","date_gmt":"2010-09-10T08:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookleteer.com\/blog\/?p=2322"},"modified":"2010-09-09T16:30:18","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T15:30:18","slug":"book-sharing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/book-sharing\/","title":{"rendered":"Library in a Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2324\" href=\"http:\/\/bookleteer.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/book-sharing\/phone_library2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2324\" title=\"phone_library2\" src=\"http:\/\/bookleteer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/phone_library2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"297\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A couple of weeks ago I wrote a couple of posts about libraries, librarians and what services and characteristics they might provide in the future based on the talks and discussion at Be2camp Brum 2010.<\/p>\n<p>To my mind,\u00a0 a\u00a0 library&#8217;s primary function is to lend books to people and this service of sharing books in a community is beautifully carried out by this library-in-a-phone-box in Westbury-sub-Mendip, Somerset.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2325\" href=\"http:\/\/bookleteer.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/book-sharing\/phone_library-2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2325\" title=\"phone_library\" src=\"http:\/\/bookleteer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/phone_library1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"282\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The phone box was bought from BT for \u00a31 in 2009 and then a tea party was held to decide what to do with it. The idea of a mini-library was instantly popular as the nearest public library is four miles away and the mobile library stopped visiting the year before.<\/p>\n<p>There is no full-time librarian and the phone box is open 24 hours a  day, seven days a week for members of the village to pop by and drop off  books and borrow new ones. There are four wooden shelves of books and  the children&#8217;s section is a red box on the floor.<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s a great reminder that libraries don&#8217;t have to be huge to be valued and makes me wonder what an eBook library might look like and where it might be located. Perhaps a cardboard box in the corner of a caf\u00e9 or an old cupboard at the end of the street is all that is needed..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago I wrote a couple of posts about libraries, librarians and what services and characteristics they might provide in the future based on the talks and discussion at Be2camp Brum 2010. To my mind,\u00a0 a\u00a0 library&#8217;s primary function is to lend books to people and this service of sharing books in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,63],"tags":[337,78,339],"class_list":["post-2322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration","category-sharing","tag-inspiration","tag-library","tag-sharing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2322"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2345,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2322\/revisions\/2345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}