Saturday 18 December 2021

In Great Britain,

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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