Street Libraries are a beautiful home for books, planted in your front yard. They are accessible from the street, and are an invitation to share the joys of reading with your neighbours.
Street Libraries are a window into the mind of a community; books come and go; no-one needs to check them in or out. People can simply reach in and take what interests them; when they are done, they can return them to the Street Library network, or pass them on to friends.
If anyone has a book or two that they think others would enjoy, they can just pop it into any Street Library they happen to be walking past. They are a symbol of trust and hope – a tiny vestibule of literary happiness.
On our visit to the Bay this morning we discovered yet another street library at 3A Crown Street - the first one is at the intersection of Orient Street and Beach Road - and I couldn't resist giving a beautiful Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition of "The Sun Also Rises" a new home at Riverbend.
Should I put a street library outside the gate of "Riverbend" stuffed full with books written in German? (a copy of "Mein Kampf" springs to mind!)
Let me think about it!
