(16 May 2023) Twenty bus stops across Boston were outfitted last week with quick response, or QR, codes allowing riders to browse and borrow audiobooks, e-books, e-newspapers and e-magazines from the Boston Public Library, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu announced Thursday. Users are not required to have a library card or download an app to access the…
(18 Feb 2022) A team in Penang, Malaysia, gave the local abandoned phone booths a new look by transforming them into mini libraries for the community. Penggerak Komuniti Muda (PEKA), an organization that aims to empower youth, was looking for a way to encourage the younger generation to pick up the reading habit. The…
(12 January 2019) Despite problems with vandalism and theft, the number of street libraries in the Canberra area has doubled in the past year and organisers are hoping to see at least one in every suburb by the end of 2019. Early last year, Canberrans Shah Bahpyu and Roz Martiniello made it their mission to spread the…