Small Libraries
Here are some small libraries in Wellington! These are a big deal and they would always love some support. Thanks in advance!
Wellington City Libraries is a large library! Big old Wellington Library, with all its books, games, periodicals, movies and music, secret occult collection, and other stuff. No big deal, lots of libraries are big.
But some are small. And these are some of the small libraries in Wellington.
Little Red Library
If you go to Wellington Trades Hall (which you should! It’s a Wellington landmark), you can visit the Little Red Library, which has an ever-growing collection of leftwing material from Wellington and AoNZ. It has a very cool vibe, but is open only intermittently so check their Instagram first!
The Freedom Shop (which is inside Book Haven)
Image used with permission from The Freedom Shop.
Book Haven is a cool little 2nd hand bookstore in Newtown, so strictly speaking is not a library! But within is a smaller stall (The Freedom Shop) that has a large collection of zines. In a very loose sense – perhaps the loosest sense - it is like a small library that you can browse.
French Library (Alliance Française Wellington)
Image used with permission from Alliance Française.
If you’re learning French or you’re a Francophile, come browse the French Library. You need to join Alliance Française to take stuff out, but you’re welcome to rester et lire un livre, as they might say.
Lilliput Libraries
Image used with permission from Lilliput Libraries.
These are those tiny libraries that you see around the motu with free books to grab (or swap). The Lilliput Libraries started in Dunedin. They have 235! Wellington has 5. However, there are other, non-affiliated ones here – you can find one up by the community gardens in Mount Victoria, and others are in Grafton Road, Holloway Road, Tawa, Khandallah, and outside Zealandia. All over the place. Maybe you could start your own?
Are there more? Please let me know.
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