Launch - Street Library Australia · 3rd December 2017 Photo-story Laura Brearley. Anna Gebhardt...
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Launch
Inverloch Street Library
with Anna Gebhardt
3rd December 2017
Photo-story Laura Brearley
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Anna Gebhardt from Inverloch, has created a Street Library on the footpath outside her home.
She invited the community to the launch of the new Street Library.
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There was music, dancing, colour and cake at the Launch.
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‘Street Libraries are a beautiful home for books,
planted in your front yard.’
Source: https://streetlibrary.org.au
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‘They are accessible from the street,
and are an invitation to share
the joys of reading with your neighbours.’
Source: https://streetlibrary.org.au
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‘If anyone has a book or two that they think others would enjoy,
they can just pop it into any Street Library they happen to be walking past.’
Source: https://streetlibrary.org.au
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‘Street Libraries are a window into the
mind of a community; books come and go;
no-one needs to check them in or out.
People can simply reach in and take what
interests them; when they are done, they
can return them to the Street Library
network, or pass them on to friends.’
Source: https://streetlibrary.org.au
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Anna began the ceremony to launch the Street Library with an Acknowledgment of Country
and paid respect to the Boon Wurrung / Bunurong Traditional Custodians.
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Anna had spent the previous day preparing a
special afternoon tea with home made cakes and biscuits.
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She served us freshly brewed tea from a red teapot and from a teapot with a
lime green woollen tea cosy with coloured pompoms on top.
It was all prepared with care and thoughtfulness and tasted beautiful.
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The neighbourhood came out to celebrate.
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There was a big age range in the
people who attended the Launch.
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The Street Library was an immediate success with the local children.
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Local librarians were there too …
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… and books were exchanged
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Lyndal Chambers and Brian ‘Strat’ Strating
helped celebrate with the much loved
local Street Band, the Invy Horn Jam.
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The Band played some songs in front of the Street Library …
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… and we all sang along
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They paraded along the footpath …
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… and down the street
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The Street Library has now been officially launched in Inverloch.
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A Street Library is
‘a symbol of trust and hope a tiny vestibule of literary happiness.’
Source: https://streetlibrary.org.au
Deep thanks to Anna Gebhardt for her warmth and generosity,
for sharing her love of books and for bringing the community together in this way.