"The medieval library was a site of performance, where people left traces in their books without fear of censure. They marked them, doodle in them, defaced them, chewed them, tore them up and even slept with them"... Chewed them?!🤔 #rarebooks#veryrarebooks 🙃
Maryland’s statewide policy that limits direct access to books for thousands of incarcerated individuals is a direct infringement on incarcerated individuals' right to read. Our statement here. https://t.co/vN4jOUdocC
Another community project via Friends of Carnegie Library - still working,while "re-opened" library remains unfit for use w no heating, no step-free access, no kitchen, no toilet. Community groups still having to rent elsewhere. https://t.co/a4cJhygnSf
Book making workshop at Old Manor Park library today - Making Portable Carnegie Library. Thank you to those who came! It was great hearing all the stories!
The morning session for the #turnthepageSymposium is titled collaborative spaces and covers everything from #libraries to socially engaged book art. Talks from @KoBosco @angelacbutler Siobhan Britton and Gemma Meek
Labour should be making mincemeat of the Conservatives over cuts to public libraries. But they're not. Why? Read my thoughts (and the rest of the public library news) at https://t.co/ZI1h5vH2km. Also, see Alan Wylie's take at https://t.co/Rx2Kl3SHj2
Places still left on the book making workshop for the library community in Herne Hill this Sunday! Come and share your story about the Carnegie Library! https://t.co/xVss6kYB5S
Come and make a book that will tell your story about the Herne Hill Carnegie Library! Sign up to the free book making workshop on 6th May. If you can't come but would still like to take part tweet your story on #portablecarnegielibrary@FrndsofCarnegie https://t.co/1jQhRSuQUl
The government wants libraries to help
benefit claimants etc but does nothing to stop cuts to them caused by (government-decided) austerity. The BBC points out this may cause a problem. https://t.co/VcHMEmeA8w