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February is National Library Lovers’ Month.
Library and media specialist Beau Williams of Snow Hill Middle School, located in Snow Hill, Md., has been selected as one of 12 finalists in a national classroom furniture giveaway from furniture ...
NLW has spread to different countries. The first National Library Week of the Jamaica Library Association was held March 6–12, 1966. [7] Libraries Week display in 2017, Skipton Library, UK. Australia's Library and Information Week is organized by the Australian Library and Information Association, and held annually at the end of May. The ...
Little Free Library in a Tokyo Metro station. The first Little Free Library was built in 2009 by the late Todd Bol in Hudson, Wisconsin. [9] Bol mounted a wooden container, designed to look like a one-room schoolhouse, on a post on his lawn and filled it with books as a tribute to his late mother, a book lover and school teacher who had recently died. [10]
A literary festival, also known as a book festival or writers' festival, is a regular gathering of writers and readers, typically on an annual basis in a particular city. A literary festival usually features a variety of presentations and readings by authors, as well as other events, delivered over a period of several days, with the primary objectives of promoting the authors' books and ...
As literary enthusiasts worldwide prepare to celebrate World Book Day, Airbnb unveiled a new opportunity for bookworms: an overnight stay in the Hidden Library of St Paul’s Cathedral for £7 ($8 ...
The simplest one is when supporters of a library simply meet en masse and read their own books. Usually this type of read-in is held at or near the supported library or the targeted legislative body. Indianapolis library lovers organized a read-in during July 2010 to protest drastic budget cuts that would have closed 6 branches. [24]
A school library (or a school media center) is a library within a school where students, and sometimes their parents and staff have access to loan a variety of resources, often literary or digital. The goal of a school library or media center is to ensure that all members of the school community have equitable access "to books and reading, to ...