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610 869 4712

725 Street Road Cochranville, PA 19330 
SUMMER LIBRARY
July 3 through
​November 13, 2021

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

Librarian 3
Rachel Eng
August 29 - September 12

Librarian 4
Maria Möller
September 17-  October 3

Librarian 5
Mary Tasillo
October 5 - 24

Librarian 6
Georgie Devereux
October 29 - November 14
This summer the library expands: an extension of our Little Free Library 19330 takes up residence in our main Street Road building.

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. Now three years old, it has seen thousands of books come and go, from those donated by local residents, to many mailed in from around the globe.

Here we take some 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. 
 
Here at our primary exhibition space, this temporary 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.

During the exhibition, a series of invited librarians will perform their own interventions, rearranging of the shelves according to any system (or non-system) of their choosing. These orderings - or dis-orderings - will be documented throughout the summer, and we hope you will come by and browse, in person or virtually here. Click the individual Librarians' names at left to visit their individual interventions.  

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

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Visiting:
Autumn 2021: please check our website or social media before visiting as our hours are subject to change. Masks are required and we are observing limited numbers of people inside at one time. Please call 610-869-4712 or email to set up visits outside our regularly scheduled hours. 
We are currently seeking volunteers: email us if you are interested in volunteering for a few hours. 
 
HOURS
Street Road: Friday, Saturday and Sundays 11-3 pm and by appointment for the duration of Summer Library. Check back after November 13 for our winter hours. The library box outside is open 24/7. 
Little Free Library: Thursdays 12-3pm, Fridays 10am-2pm and Saturdays 10am-2pm and by appointment. 
Our Little Free Library's outdoor box is open 24/7 and regularly restocked.

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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