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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