People need more, not less, community engagement, and more, not fewer, libraries to nourish readers and thinkers. Book Post is a grass-roots community lending library initiative- the brainchild of Ann Kjellberg, a local publishing professional, and Catherine Lafferty, a volunteer community gardener. The mission is to place small book shelters in New York City Parks, and other community-use spaces.
Architecture & Design NYC Little Free Library design team is composed of a volunteer corps of Architects and Interns sponsored by the NYC Department of Education Career and Technical Education (CTE), and Architecture Apprentices sponsored by the Success Via Apprenticeship (SVA) program. The design team is collaborating with Hell’s Kitchen Park stewards this summer to design two prototype Book Post NYC 2020 installations- one for adults, and one for children. The project site is Hell’s Kitchen Park in Manhattan, NYC. In keeping with the spirit of the initiative, the process is documented along the way to generate an ‘open source’ guidebook.
Architecture & Design NYC Little Free Library is a “bite-sized lending library service and an online collection offering resources focused on NYC’s legacy of Architecture & Design to adults and children to support learning and appreciation how architecture and design affects people in urban environments to which libraries are also vitally important.
