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Let's hear it for Lisbon Librarians

  • Jul. 1st, 2005 at 8:07 AM
E. E. Knight
From AFP: Library sets up shop on Portuguese beach to encourage summer reading

LISBON (AFP) - With the summer season in full swing, officials in northern Portugal are setting up a library at a popular beach to encourage sun-seekers to read as they tan by the seaside.

The library will operate from two locations along the beach in Povoa de Varzim, a popular fishing port resort town located 380 kilometres (235 miles) north of Lisbon, offering books, magazines and newspapers on short-term loan...


In other news, [info]chats_noirs gets out early today. Movie time!

Comments

[info]onetimeoffer wrote:
Jul. 1st, 2005 01:29 pm (UTC)
That is the coolest thing I've ever heard in connection to libraries. Lisbon rocks!
[info]suricattus wrote:
Jul. 1st, 2005 01:42 pm (UTC)
yay for Librarians!
(Anonymous) wrote:
Feb. 12th, 2006 07:38 pm (UTC)
Library :)
Yay for POVOA!!! (Viva Portugal!)