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This Library Is Trash — Literally: The Turkish Garbage Library

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It’s the last place you’d expect to find a library--the long hallway of an old brick warehouse at the sanitation department . . . Long rows of white garbage trucks parked nearby. What the heck? Why put a library there? Who thought that was a good idea?

This is the true story of one of the world’s most unexpected libraries and what it has to teach us about libraries, good ideas, community resilience, and . . . garbage collecting.

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References

Dorsey, D. (200 C.E., December). Positive deviant. Fast Company, 41, 284–287. https://communication-skills.net/pdf/PositiveDeviant.pdf

Heath, C., & Heath, D. (2010). Switch: how to change things when change is hard. Broadway Books.

Positive Deviance Collaborative. (2018, April 14). The Vietnam story: 25 years later. Positive Deviance Collaborative. https://positivedeviance.org/case-studies-all/2018/4/16/the-vietnam-story-25-years-later

Wikipedia Contributors. (2024, April 9). Positive deviance. Wikipedia; Wikimedia Foundation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_deviance

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It’s the last place you’d expect to find a library--the long hallway of an old brick warehouse at the sanitation department . . . Long rows of white garbage trucks parked nearby. What the heck? Why put a library there? Who thought that was a good idea?

This is the true story of one of the world’s most unexpected libraries and what it has to teach us about libraries, good ideas, community resilience, and . . . garbage collecting.

Email us: [email protected]

Our Website: www.iheartthispodcast.com

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@IHeartThisPodcast

References

Dorsey, D. (200 C.E., December). Positive deviant. Fast Company, 41, 284–287. https://communication-skills.net/pdf/PositiveDeviant.pdf

Heath, C., & Heath, D. (2010). Switch: how to change things when change is hard. Broadway Books.

Positive Deviance Collaborative. (2018, April 14). The Vietnam story: 25 years later. Positive Deviance Collaborative. https://positivedeviance.org/case-studies-all/2018/4/16/the-vietnam-story-25-years-later

Wikipedia Contributors. (2024, April 9). Positive deviance. Wikipedia; Wikimedia Foundation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_deviance

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