Little Free Library books are meant to be taken, they are a success when person takes care of unit (constant restocking)
Little Free Library PEN Writes Union -Failures -no one restocks library
Great designs-no books when i visited
Penn South Laundry room Book/ Magazine Recycling -There is no one keeper of the units , tenants have the responsibility to restock themselves and constantly do so
Bird Feeders for Readers are not meant to be Libraries they are Outdoor Reading Rooms -no taking of books
Why have Outdoor Reading Rooms
Lack of Libraries in many neighborhoods
Lack of Bookstores
The number of bookstores in Manhattan fell drastically between 2000 and 2012,plummeting by almost 30 percent. Even large chains like Barnes & Noble, once painted as the enemy of independent bookstores, have not been immune to the industry’s woes. Borders, which had five outlets in Manhattan, declared bankruptcy in 2011. Several Barnes & Nobles have closed throughout the city in recent years. NYT
Literacy stuff
Research
consistently shows that children who live in low-income neighborhoods
have little access to reading material in
their public libraries, in their schools, and at home. After
investigating access to reading material in different neighborhoods,
Neuman and Celano (2001) concluded that that " ... children in
middle-income neighborhoods were likely to be deluged with a wide
variety of reading materials. However, children from poor neighborhoods
would have to aggressively and persistently seek them out" (p. 15).
If
more access leads to more reading, and if more reading leads to better
reading, writing, spelling, grammar, and a larger vocabulary (for
overwhelming evidence, see Krashen, 2004), this means that the first
step any literacy campaign needs to take is to make sure children have
access to plenty of books. link
Bryant Park-Stocking outdoor reading room partially through magazine subscriptions
Magazine subscriptions
Under $5.00
-Either each locations gets to choose $50 in magazines
or 2 locationswill get to choose $100 of magazines
-To get magazines someone(s) at garden must volunteer to receive magazines and bring to garden
-ask garden keepers if willing to do, gardens that say yes get magazines
Extra storage to add books if needed
Larger Unit for one location
Specialized Bird Feeders
Spanish
Childrens
Comic Books
Networking Public spaces with Unified Public Space maps
Park East Harlem
