Last weekend, Walkerston Rotary Club celebrated 5 Years of Little Street Libraries.
June 10, 2018 was the installation and Grand Opening of the club's first little library.
A Little Street Library is a place where one can swap books – ‘Take a Book, Leave a Book’!
Walkerston Rotary’s first little library was established in Stevic Street, Valley View Estate – and proved a success, literally from its first day!
Today the little library family has grown to ten branches, established in Walkerston and the surrounding areas - from Finch Hatton to North Mackay - all very popular and well used.
The popularity of different titles, whether adult or children’s books, varies according to the demographics of the population of the different areas.
The first little library was manufactured from a flat-pack kit, painted with bright colours.
With number two library, club members became quite innovative, modifying a disused storage box.
One could possibly liken the progressive change of this container to the much-loved literary classic fairy tale of the ‘ugly duckling’ morphing into a ‘beautiful swan’!
Subsequently, with the following eight little libraries, club members, and friends, became much more adventurous with designs and colours.
Of course, Little Street Libraries would not work without lots of books; these have been donated in abundance by some wonderful people, and still are!
The stash of books accumulated is of such a size that the contents of all the little libraries can be rotated on a regular basis - in addition to the automatic changes which occur when one item is swapped for another by little library users.
Little Street Libraries are a symbol of trust and hope, a small nook of ideal literary bliss; beautiful homes for books, all kinds of books - a window into the collective mind of the community they are placed in.
Books come and go; no one needs to check them in or out. Walkerston Rotary’s Little Street Libraries are Free to all community members – it’s a 24/7 Self-Service.
Contributed by Bente McDonald
WalkerstonRotary’s Little Street Library are located at:
Finch Hatton Central, FinchHatton
54 Katey Crescent, PioneerLakes, Mirani
Melba House,Mackay-Eungella Road, Marian
9 Boundary Street, Eton
25 McColl Street,Walkerston
32 Stevic Street, ValleyView Estate, Walkerston
28 Woden Crescent,Cuttersfield, Ooralea
403 Bridge Road, WestMackay
14 Juliet Street, South Mackay
14 Ernest Street, North Mackay
Launch of the first Little Street Library - June 10, 2018
Launch of the Finch Hatton Little Library – March 8, 2022
Number Ten - Vinnie's Little Street Library Launch – September 23, 2022. Photos supplied
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