libraries are quietly disappearing,
some 800
libraries in the past decade, a fifth of the UK's total, gone, I guess it may be similar in other countries, so it must have come as a surprise for Devon
Tatton who is a librarian at the Greater Victoria Public Library in British
Columbia, to find a library in the library, photographs Tori
Marlan / Capital Daily,
it happened like this, she found and
pulled a copy of Handpicked Tours of North America: A Motorist’s Guide to
Scenic Routes and Fascinating Places in Canada and the USA. When she picked it
up, a tiny zine, a handmade magazine fell out, Tatton
discovered that the book was a hollow shell filled with a wide variety of
zines, although it had a spine label and was shelved in the correct location by
the Dewey Decimal System, it was a fake. Inside was a message saying that the
book was the "central branch" of an underground zine trading library,
Tatton had
discovered a guerilla library operating secretly inside her own library. This
began her quest to find the person responsible for creating and managing this
secret library, and guess what? Tatton was successful! you can read the whole story at Capital
Daily, via Jessamyn West, and here is your mission if you choose to take it, go to your local library and find the book with the zines in it!
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