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610 869 4712
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Street Road
725 Street Road Cochranville, PA 19330 

The Little Free Library
1016B Gap Newport Pike 
Cochranville, PA 19330

SUMMER LIBRARY
Begun Summer 2021, ongoing.

View the catalog of books passing through the Summer Library, here (where you can also visit our permanent collections).

LIBRARIANS
please follow the link for details on each intervention

Librarian 1
Angella Meanix
July 30 - August 13

Librarian 2
Laura Florence
August 14 - 28, 2021

Librarian 3
Rachel Eng
August 29 - September 12, 2021

Librarian 4
Maria Möller
September 17-  October 3, 2021

Librarian 5
Mary Tasillo
October 5 - 24, 2021

Librarian 6
Georgie Devereux
October 29 - November 14, 2021

Librarian 7
Rhonda Ike
July - September 3, 2022

Librarian 8
Logan Cryer
September 16 to November 5, 2022

Librarian 9
Maya Wasileski 
November 11 to TBD

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Street Road's Summer Library project is an ongoing meditation on library collections and reading tendencies, with a specific focus on our own Little Free Library 19330.

Artists and writers and others are invited to become Librarians for a time, using our changing collections as a base material with which to create their own interpretations of the ever-changing Library. Participants arrange and rearrange the shelves and the space according to any system (or non-system) of their choosing. 
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The Little Free Library started as a one square foot box with a dozen books and soon grew into a five hundred square foot storefront by the side of Route 41, a few miles north of our main site. Since opening day in 2018, it has seen thousands of books come and go, from those donated by local residents, to many mailed in from around the globe.

With this project we take time to reflect on the shape shifting nature of this collection, which can seem to have a tidal quality: books flow in and out, sometimes sitting on the shelves for years, sometimes zipping back out the door in days, or even hours. 

At our primary exhibition space, the Summer Library project extension functions as a little free library, and at the same time is a place for thinking about informal librarianships in little free libraries everywhere, and about the particular ebb and flow of books in our locale.

​Join us as we catalogue the weather of the library over time.

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​NOTE: These orderings and dis-orderings are documented and updated regularly online, and we hope you will come by and browse, in person or virtually. Click the individual Librarians' names at left to visit their individual interventions.

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VISITING
Please check our website or social media before visiting as our hours are subject to change.

Street Road HOURS
Fridays and Saturdays from 11am-3pm and by appointment.

Little Free Library HOURS
Mondays 6-9pm (beginning Jan 16, 2023)
​Thursdays 12-4pm
Fridays 10am-2pm
Saturdays 10am-2pm
and by appointment.

Our Little Free Library outdoor boxes at both sites are open 24/7 and are regularly restocked.

Please call 610-869-4712 or email to set up visits outside our regularly scheduled hours. 
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We are currently seeking volunteers for both locations: email us to enquire. We look forward to hearing from you!

DIRECTIONS
to Street Road here. 
to The Little Free Library here.

A word about 'here':
We acknowledge that we are on the ancestral lands of the Lenape, original people of the mid-Atlantic area, forced west by British and US governments. Most Delaware Indian tribe descendants are now located in Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario. Lenni Lenapes in Pennsylvania are not officially recognized as tribes by the United States, though an estimated 5000 Lenape Nation descendants live in the Delaware River area. We pay respects to the Lenape people both past and present. Please consider the many legacies of violence, displacement and settlement that form part of our collective histories. While increased public recognition of these legacies and processes of redress such as Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission are positive steps, concrete focus on return of land and land rights remains a distant horizon.
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