Thread by @Sanikri

INTERESTING FACTS: about the World’s most unusual libraries.
The library is a haven for those who love to escape, and the temple of learning. Reading could provide access to a world of research, creativity, and most importantly can educate.

Here are six of the most unusual libraries in the world:
-Biblioburro (Columbia) - Teacher Luis Soriano had two donkeys that he nicknamed Alfa and Beto, which together make the word "alphabet" in Spanish. In order to read stories to pupils, he saddled up the donkeys,

loaded them up with roughly 70 books from his personal bookshelves, and rode them to the neighborhood primary schools. After 25 years, Soriano's library has significantly expanded, and he is still promoting the love of reading.

-Epos Library Ship (Norway) – Until 2020, Epos sailed through Norway’s many fjords to deliver books to fjordside communities. About 6,000 books were carried by Epos, who made two yearly trips to 250 communities.. Its librarians had to meet certain requirements,

one of which was that they couldn't become seasick, given the peculiar conditions.
Similar “libraries” exist in Chile’s Chiloé Archipelago and on the Nam Khong River in Laos.

-Camel Library (Kenya) - In rural northeast Kenya, camels, nicknamed “ships of the desert,” once carried reading materials in and around the town of Garissa. Camels were the perfect choice to deliver hundreds of books, a tent, and a reading mat

to the area's nomadic people since they are well-suited to the hard terrain and scorching summer temperatures in that location.
The camel library, though, might eventually be phased out and replaced by motorcycles thanks to improvements to the road infrastructure.

-Lire à la Plage (France - “Reading at the Beach”) - Although books cannot be taken off the beach, the librarians will be pleased to put the book aside for you and make a notation that you'll be returning the next day.

Similar reading initiatives have in Australia’s Coogee Beach, in Albena on Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast, and Tel Aviv, Israel, a city that had previously installed books at bus stops.

-Chained Libraries (England) - In the Middle Ages, it was usual to link reference volumes to library shelves. The books in these libraries were chained to the shelves to prevent theft. There are still about a dozen chained collections in England,

despite the fact that they largely disappeared in the 18th century.
The oldest chain library is the Francis Trigge Chained Library, founded in 1598 at St Wulfram’s Church in Grantham, Lincolnshire.

-Nanie’s Reading Club (the Philippines) - Filipino man named Hernando “Nanie” Guanlao, n 2000, was looking for a way to honor his beloved parents, who had recently passed away. He made the decision to construct a library outside his house & placed his own books on the sidewalk

for neighbors to borrow - as a way of saying thank you to his parents for instilling in him a lifetime love of reading. Today, Nanie’s Reading Club is more popular than ever, and every inch of space in his home, inside and out, is covered with books.

As Plato said: “Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything”.
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