Boston Street Lab Blog (2008-2012)
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...
A Storefront Library for Evanston IL
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,...
Volunteer Librarians now at work on the UNI
Boston Street Lab is pleased to introduce a group of graduate students from Simmons' Graduate School of Library and Information Science who have volunteered to help us create a collection of books for our next project called the the UNI, a portable, open-air reading...
Boston Globe editorial, Chinatown library
The Boston Globe published an editorial this morning proposing that the city, Boston Public Library and members of the Chinatown community sit down with developers of a lot on Washington St. and renegotiate a public benefits package to re-direct funding towards the...
Uni design: lessons learned from music road gear
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Mobile classroom for train stations in India
Here's a mobile classroom that is used to teach children in India. The founder of the project invented a way to go directly to orphaned and homeless children—children who end up in India's train stations and are often swept up by adults for...