Book lovers will go to many lengths to gain access to reading materials. In his new book from Thames & Hudson, “Improbable Libraries,” Alex Johnson explores just how far libraries will go to deliver a reading experience to people.
The book uncovers unusual libraries around the globe from library boats for Laotian children on the river to a Mobile Art Library which drives around Mexico City and a Mongolian Children’s Mobile Library that brings books to nomadic herding communities via camel.
Here is more about the book from its description:
Whether by bike in Chicago or by donkey in Colombia, librarians all over the world are coming up with astonishingly ingenious ways of ensuring their books reach the people who need them. Many of these new libraries function as community centres, and assist their members in overcoming economic, social and political barriers.
(Via The Guardian).