Archives › 2009 › May
Inauguration day of “T-Sture”, the new Metro Library at Stureplan, Stockholm from Åke Nygren. Here’s a glimpse of what appears to be the opening of a new library in a Metro Station in Stockholm. (Note the fresh flowers, cafe area, and acrobats.) We’ve been exploring the concept of “library outposts,” a term which we trace [...]
Boston Street Lab toured the open-air Reading Room at Bryant Park in midtown Manhattan and met with Paul Romero, Project Director. The original Reading Room began in 1935 as a public response to job losses in New York, and it ran until the start of WWII. The current Reading Room draws on that precedent by offering carts with [...]
Boston Street Lab announced the Storefront Library at the most recent meeting of The Chinatown Coalition (TCC). TCC brings together neighborhood residents, community members, businesses, and institutions committed to serving Boston’s Chinatown. The TCC meets monthly and provides a forum for discussion, collaboration, and resource sharing. Boston Street Lab encouraged TCC members to support the Storefront project [...]
Boston Street Lab has reached out to Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Service for interns to participate in development the Storefront Library program this summer and interns to help operate the library next fall. Interns must be graduate students in the Simmons College GSLIS program who have completed 12 credits, including the completion of the reference, [...]