BookCycle

Special thanks to Tegan Thuss for featuring BookCycle (and our friends KW Little Free Library) in this recent article in The Cord Community Edition!

Plans for 2014 have already started....

BookCycle's last day in Waterloo Town Square, for 2013, will be October 31st

This citizen library has been SO WELL RECEIVED that we're already discussing a summer 2014 installation. Stay posted for news on that.

What did you like? What did you LOVE? What would you like to see done differently with literacy in your community? Let us know: [email protected]

(we try to check emails as frequently as possible)

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Many many individuals (both anonymous and public), community groups and citizens walking through Waterloo Town Square contributed to BookCycle this summer

To those of you we know by name, we thank you for your generous book donations to this initiative

Al Rickard

Heather Kelly

Harold, Catt, and the Preston Scout House Alumni Band

Jude Doble

Kristen and the staff at Words Worth Books

Lori Fraser

The Kruger Family

The Peters Family

The Meldazy Family

To those of you who chose to remain anonymous, our heartfelt "thank you" is boundless! 

The books have been enjoyed by many and a positive impact felt across the city. The BookCycle collective is still doing our final guesstimate tally on how many books we received and were traded this summer. 

Last week BookCycle was profiled on the Kitchener-Waterloo arts website Red Leather Booth

A special thank you to Jude for speaking with us for this article!

A very special Thank You to the Preston Scout House Alumni Band for their incredible donation to BookCycle. Multiple slab boxes full of wonderful books, enough to fill the back of this car! Tons of children's books, hardcover, paperbacks, and more.

The Preston Scout House Alumni Band is celebrating their 75th anniversary this year. The group includes over 200 regular and associate members, which means it's one of the largest organizations of this kind in Canada.

These books will be enjoyed by countless people around the community. We're really excited to have received such a generous donation!

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Did you donate books to BookCycle this summer? Let us know so we can include your name on the forthcoming 'Thank You' list to all who participated in 2013. The list isn't static, and we'll update as we go.

This is our way of publicly recognizing all individuals who so enthusiastically self organized to trade books in Waterloo. Your support gave this citizen library voice, shape, and allowed it to take root in the community.

You showed that something like this IS possible and IS valuable for neighbourhoods. Best of all, it can happen again (we're hoping that BookCycle will have a Year 2, but that's for another blog post)

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It’s a small step toward providing access to literature for everyone in the community.

Thanks for all these citizen photos! Keep sending 'em 

Found the BookCycle trunk today in Waterloo Square. Love this idea.

BookCycle, a volunteer-driven literacy curatorial collective to bring together art and reading for the public, debuted their first installation in Waterloo Town Square this week.

BookCycle is a citizen library, a station that allows access to books whenever – and however – residents of the region would like. 

Centered around the growth of similar projects worldwide, BookCycle is free for all members of the public to use 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and will remain in Waterloo Town Square for the remainder of the summer.

With the generous support of the City of Waterloo, community members are invited to leave books at the station, take books from it, swap books with others they meet, or simply borrow a book from it while in Waterloo Town Square.

In an age of digital media sharing and pervasive mobile technology, affordable and reliable access to information is still a barrier for many.  BookCycle’s purpose, providing free books for residents of the region, highlights the need for dialogue on issues of access with this community focused art installation.

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  About BookCycle:

BookCycle is an entirely volunteer driven initiative and collective in Waterloo, Ontario. Organized and curated by Gena Meldazy, Carmen Peters (artist in residence), and Ashley Kruger, BookCycle can be reached at [email protected]

Welcome to BookCycle, a citizen library located in Waterloo Town Square.

BookCycle is free for all members of the public to use. Leave a book, take a book, enjoy, share, donate, borrow, return, and bookcycle your books to this community building effort in the heart of the city

BookCycle is curated by:

Gena Meldazy, Ashley Kruger, and Carmen Peters