Monday, November 30, 2009

News Report 5: Ringing the changes: phone box becomes mini-library.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/nov/30/phone-box-mini-library-somerset
Monday 30 November

The townspeople of Somerset, England have renovated decommissioned Phone Booths, into a public library. This change came after the local mobile library went out of business and there were threats of moving the old red phone booths. The phone booths in Somerset store around 100 books and 80 DVDs, which locals can take and return at their leisure. There are not any librarians, and no way of passing out late fees.

I think that this is an innovative way to both reuse the old red phone booths which were loved in the community and also bring back an opportunity for the locals to access books and DVDs for free.

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