There are miniature ones, those on the beach, on the train, on the sidewalk and even in a taxi! We are talking about libraries scattered around the world that go beyond the traditional boundaries we are used to.
He is about to end up run over, his mother saves himThere are miniature ones, those on the beach, on the train, on the sidewalk and even in a taxi! Let's talk about libraries scattered all over the world that go beyond the traditional borders we are used to.
A very long and varied list that would be impossible to summarize, we have chosen 10: certainly strange but they have one common thread: spreading the love for books and culture.
Index
10 unusual libraries around the world
1) The Harry Potter library
Those who have visited Dublin certainly did not miss Trinity College, the oldest and most famous Irish university. Inside there is a prestigious library, the Old Library, with a gigantic room: the Long Room.
READ also: THE INCREDIBLE LIBRARY WHERE TO RELIVE THE MAGIC OF HARRY POTTER (PHOTOS AND VIDEO)
The library… by taxi
His taxi becomes a real traveling library, ready to bring culture to every corner of his city. We are in Iran, specifically to Rasht. Here the taxi driver Sahel Filsoof for some time he has been driving a car with a series of books, hoping to encourage his passengers to read during taxi rides. READ also: TAXI TRANSFORMED INTO MOBILE LIBRARIES TO LET YOU READ DURING THE TRIP
The miniature library
Free books for everyone outside the official circuits. In the United States they are depopulated Little Free Libraries, mini libraries where you can borrow books or make them available to others. READ also: LITTLE FREE LIBRARIES: MINIATURE LIBRARIES ARE POPULAR IN THE USA FOR BOOKCROSSING (PHOTO)
The library on the sidewalk
The librarians of the Urban Librarians Unite they thought of creating micro libraries and placing them on the pavements of Brooklyn and Queens. These little boxes, painted a bright orange and installed right next to the closed libraries, hold about a hundred books at a time, which are distributed for free.
READ also: BOOK CROSSING: MICRO LIBRARIES ON THE NEW YORK SIDEWALKS AGAINST NATURAL DISASTERS
The library on the train
Can't you do without the smell of books and the pleasure of reading even when you travel? There is a Dutch intercity that has turned into a real one mobile library.
READ also: THE DUTCH TRAIN THAT HAS BECOME A MOBILE LIBRARY
The mobile library
Mobile libraries are a beautiful social reality, above all because they are born with the aim of bringing books to all those areas of the planet where the illiteracy rate is still high. READ also: MOBILE LIBRARIES THAT BRING BOOKS TO THOSE WHO DO NOT HAVE THEM (PHOTO)
The library on the beach
From the Black Sea of Bulgaria, to Albena, where a beach library houses more than 6.000 books, to Tel Aviv, where the Metzitzim Beach offers books in five languages and Wifi for tablets to read e-books. READ also: LIBRARIES, ITINERANT AND NOT, TO READ BOOKS ON THE BEACH (VIDEO)
The book-shaped library
The library of Kansas City it presents a feature probably unique in the world for this type of building. Its structure is in fact immediately recognizable from the outside due to the presence of large panels designed to reproduce the backs of the covers of some of the most read and best known books in the world. READ also: KANSAS CITY PUBLIC LIBRARY: THE BOOK-SHAPED LIBRARY TO INCREASE THE INTEREST OF READERS
The library from recycling
In the city of Bandung in Indonesia, Shau, a Dutch design studio has created a small library using over 2 tubs of recycled ice cream. To demonstrate that the recycled materials are not only wood, plastic crates and beer cans.
READ also: THE MINI LIBRARY MADE BY RECYCLING 2 THOUSAND TRAYS OF ICE CREAM (PHOTO)
The library… human
Challenge stereotypes, remove prejudices and encourage dialogue. How many times has it happened to judge a person at first sight? Certainly very many. To endorse the theory that a book is not judged by the cover, we think about it Human Library of Copenhagen in Denmark, or the living library, a place where people turn into books. READ also: HUMAN LIBRARY: IN COPENHAGEN THE LIBRARY WITH "BOOKS" IN FLESH AND BONE AGAINST PREJUDICES
Dominella Trunfio
