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Planning the Uni, thinking about bookmobiles.

This post is a quick compilation of research by UNI Librarians Lindsey Danis and Chelsea Gunn on the status and history of Bookmobiles in Boston. Our goal was to draw on the bookmobile experience as we develop the UNI. BOSTON BOOKMOBILE TIMELINE Historical (Boston Bookmobile on Flickr) 2003 Floating Bookmobile in Hudson MA (Wicked Local 2003-07-23 [...]

A Storefront Library for Evanston IL

MIT Shelves donated to Boston Street Lab

Creating a community Storefront Library is an odd line of work—exhausting and exhilarating, a thousand mundane details and then moments that move you to tears, all in a day’s work. I suppose it’s like being a librarian, on a kind of stage. One thing is for certain, there aren’t many people doing it. So when [...]