Each library boat for Lao children on the Mekong and Ou rivers carries
around 1,000 titles. At stops, staff run games and children can borrow
books overnight and return them before the boat moves on to another
village.
"Does your library arrive at your home on an elephant? Perhaps it
floats down the river? Is it in your local telephone box, railway
station – or even your back garden?
Librarians have a long history of overcoming geographic, economic and
political challenges to bring the written word to an eager audience.
They continue to live up to that reputation, despite the rapid and
sweeping changes in how we read and share books in the 21st century.
Part of the change is architectural. Instead of the stately structure
in the centre of town with which we are usually most familiar, your
local library might now be anything from a pop-up to an imaginative
architectural masterpiece resembling a shelf of books or the inside of
an iceberg. The shift is also technological, reflecting the increased
use of mobile apps and digital technology to bring books to a wired
world, although many of the libraries in this book still rely on people
lugging traditional print books around".
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