Arriving by camel in remote areas of Mongolia or on boat along the coast of Norway, contemporary libraries are often mobile,…
Arriving by camel in remote areas of Mongolia or on boat along the coast of Norway, contemporary libraries are often mobile, creative, and community-driven, and are adapting rather than fading with the rise of electronic books and decrease in budgets. Improbable Libraries: A Visual Journey to the World’s Most Unusual Libraries by Alex Johnson, published last month by the University of Chicago Press, celebrates some of the more surprising libraries transporting books to readers across desert, jungle, water, and road.
The Nomadic Libraries Bringing Books to the Four Corners of the Globe