library
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This Colorado library lets patrons check out packets of seeds
Borrowers can't exactly grow seeds and return the exact same ones, but this library in Colorado has figured out a way around that fact of life.
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This abandoned Walmart has been reclaimed as a public library
The McAllen Public Library is the size of 2.5 football fields -- the largest single-story library in the United States.
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Bogota’s miniature public libraries will make you want to move to Colombia
Reading fans in Colombia, especially the capital city of Bogota, never need to worry about being without a book on a beautiful day. There are nearly 50 of these perfect little library kiosks scattered around the city’s parks, and 100 across the country.
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First-graders protest Starbucks to save local coffee shop
Back in 2011, a tragedy of epic proportions struck the East Village: Starbucks moved in. And not only did it move in, it kicked a beloved local coffee shop, The Bean, out of its flagship location. Even non-coffee drinking elementary school students were outraged, as Majorie Ingall discovered: Here we have a piece of paper […]