Bringing Books to the Homeless Kids: One Suitcase at a Time November 28, 2016 – Posted in: Libraries, mobile libraries
Credit: Photo by Christian Hansen for The New York Times Each week for the past eight years, with a suitcase stuffed with books, librarian Colbert Nembhard leaves the Morrisania Branch Library in the Bronx for a 10 minute walk to the Crotona Inn homeless shelter. Once there he turns “the shelter’s day care room or its dimly lighted office into an intimate library” and the magic begins. Mr. Nembhard goal is to encourage children to have a…
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