Check out this outdoor library that will grace the vineyard of St. Peter's Abbey in Ghent during this years Track festival.Designed by Italian artist Massimo Bartolini, the library installation consists of 12 bookcases that slope in harmony with the vines.The books are supplied by the public libraries of Ghent and Antwerp and are for sale with the proceeds going to the libraries.TRACK: a contemporary city conversation features work by 41 international artists that are strewn about the city of Ghent. h/t and more images at designboom
The Kids are Alright: 4th-Graders in Detroit Take Library Matters Into Their Own Hands
Rashard Baker gets some book suggestions from U-M lecturer Melanie Manos outside the closed Richard branch of the Detroit Public Library on Thursday. An outdoor library offered something interesting for him to read during spring break. / MANDI WRIGHT/Detroit Free PressBack in December The Detroit Public Library Commission voted to close four branches.One way to get books back into a library-deprived community is to take matters into your own hands. And that is exactly what a class of fourth-graders at Marcus Garvey Academy in Detroit did when they collaborated with Melanie Manos, a lecturer at University of Michigan who came...