A NEW street library is to be installed at St Paul\u2019s Anglican Church in Bakery Hill.<\/p>\n
The mini-book haven is currently being built at the Ballarat Men\u2019s Shed by Steven Petrov and other volunteers, and it will be installed later this month.<\/p>\n
\u201cI belong to St Paul\u2019s Parish and they\u2019re a community minded church and they decided to do a street library so we can add to the community spirit,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was a member of the Men\u2019s Shed also, so I put my hand up for the manufacture.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe two are very similar as the Men\u2019s Shed is also very inclusive and community minded same as our church, and when I told them I was building a street library everyone got involved.\u201d<\/p>\n
The library will function as a resource for the community to swap and borrow books at no cost.<\/p>\n
\u201cA street library is where you put books in there that are basically free for anyone to come, grab and read,\u201d said Mr Petrov.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome people will replace them, swap books and put their own books and other people might just want to take a book.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s to bring the community together to read and share books rather than having things go to landfill because that\u2019s a big community issue where things are thrown away and not reused.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr Petrov said he also hopes this project encourages residents to keep picking up physical books.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s important because it\u2019s one of those things where if people don\u2019t nurture it, it will die out,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of arts and crafts just disappear, and no one has the privilege of knowing what it was like.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow it\u2019s an e-book and all these other things so it\u2019s important we keep books alive, and they stay in the community.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A NEW street library is to be installed at St Paul\u2019s Anglican Church in Bakery Hill. The mini-book haven is currently being built at the Ballarat Men\u2019s Shed by Steven Petrov and other volunteers, and it will be installed later this month. \u201cI belong to St Paul\u2019s Parish and they\u2019re a community minded church and […]<\/p>\n