World’s Smallest Library
Posted on | January 28, 2010 | No Comments
by Cat Johnson
When their mobile library visits stopped and the threat of losing their local phone booth loomed near, the villagers of Westbury-sub-Mendip, a small town in the south of England took matters into their own hands and came up with a brilliant little solution: they bought the phone booth from British Telecom for £1, installed some shelves, rustled up some books and created their own library.
The so-called Westbury Book Exchange runs on a take-one leave-one system, is open around the clock and seems to be a great success. To keep things from getting stale, titles are monitored and ones that aren’t moving are sent off to charitable organizations.
British Telecom has received over 700 applications from people wanting to adopt the booths for their own art and community projects but so far this is the only one to be converted into a library.
Photos by Bob Dolby
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