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Last week, we took a trip to the Bay Area and met staff at two remarkable libraries: the San Francisco Public Library Chinatown Branch and the Oakland Public Library Asian Branch. San Francisco and Oakland have large Asian American communities, each with a thriving, centrally located library branch. In the months ahead, we plan to [...]
Tufts students raised $1,600 for the activities of Friends of the Chinatown Library at the Tufts Asian American Alliance’s annual charity auction last week. Freshman Joseph Ha, a co-coordinator for the event, said. . .”This year, a lot of the Asian groups around Boston have been in turmoil because of … the recession. Chinatown is [...]
The Storefront Library is a unique opportunity to model and test how the physical elements of a branch library can be designed to best serve aspects of a library program. Students and architects from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (GSD) have begun work on creating concepts for a unique, visually and tactilely engaging space which [...]
We’re looking for a vacant, street-level, accessible commercial space in Chinatown that can serve as the temporary home of the Storefront Library. For owners of vacant commercial real estate, this is an opportunity to improve the community surrounding your property. Hosting Storefront Library will bring positive attention to your role in the community and put [...]
Visit storefrontlibrary.org to learn more about our latest project, the Chinatown Storefront Library. The Storefront Library will transform one of Boston’s vacant street-level spaces into a temporary public library, featuring readings, talks, screenings, and events. Coming Fall 2009.
In the weeks ahead, we’ll be rolling out more information about the development of the Chinatown Storefront Library. Here are ways to stay connected with the project: info@storefrontlibrary.org Subscribe rss, atom Follow on Facebook