
Library Tourism - Austin Kleon

Public libraries are often seen as “opportunity institutions,” opening doors to, and for, the disenfranchised.
Shannon Mattern • Library as Infrastructure
Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.
Paul Schmitt • Zadie Smith - Feel Free.pdf


what if public libraries were open late every night and we could engage in public life there instead of having to choose between drinking at the bar and domestic isolation
When the traveler wants a big experience, he goes to a big city to see big things. But when he wants an “ authentic” experience, he must eschew the most well-trodden places, possibly the cities themselves, to find it. He must seek out places that have not yet been touched by “tourism”, he must find the people and places that still have remoteness —... See more
Simon Sarris • Small Spaces

