Storefront Library in the News

RADIO, TV, PRINT

• WBUR [10/15/09] “In Chinatown, Borrowed Books On Borrowed Time”
• Boston Globe [9/21/09] “Residents Hope Storefront Library is Preface to Branch”
• Boston Globe [9/25/09] “Storefront Library Exposes Gap”
• Neighborhood Network News [12/11/09] “Chinatown Storefront Library”
• Architecture Boston—The Lurker “Lending a Library”
• Boston Herald [1/17/10] “Experimental library closes in success”
• Library Journal [5/15/10] A grass-roots library experiment brought temporary service back to Boston’s Chinatown

LOCAL/CHINESE-LANGUAGE PRESS

• Sampan [2/5/10] “Storefront Library and Films at the Gate affirmed, civic institutions continue to grow and adapt.”
• Boston Chinese News [12/18/10] 唐人街店面圖書館 位於臨街空置店面的臨時圖書館
• Sampan [11/20/09] “A work in progress, the Chinatown Storefront Library grows with its community.”
• Sampan [10/23/09] Library finally opens in Chinatown, for a season
• World Journal [10/16/09] 唐人街店面圖書館 啟用

STUDENT/INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM

• Storefront Library Radio Feature by Abby Conway
• Storefront Library (alt.npr) by Mark S (Story also available via prx.org)
• Project highlights demand for permanent Chinatown branch by Caylan Davis on JSONS Journalism Students’ Online News Service
• Chinatown Library Project (YouTube) by Ina Chu
• Boston’s Chinatown Storefront Library by David Cheng

BLOGS ABOUT LIBRARIES

• Eric Hellman: “Back to the Future at the Storefront Library”
• Richard Kong: “Chinatown Storefront Library”
• Asian/Pacific American Librarian Assn: Chinatown Storefront Library in Boston”
• Bryan Loar: Brave New World “Pop-up Libraries”
• Bookable “Library Space Re-imagined”
• PLA Blog “The Chinatown Storefront Library”

OTHER BLOGS

• Asian Voices for Organized Youth for Community Empowerment “Chinatown Storefront Library by MeiHua Li, Oak Terrace”
• Movements and Moments: Ethnic Studies and Asian American Activism “Open Mic at the Library”
• Storefront Library on The Communication Initiative Network
• Storefront Library Volunteer Emily Wu writes about her experience at Boston Ministry
• Wong/Yee Memorial Gallery “Come to the Exhibit Opening of Insert: Collaborations”
• A shout from a Storefront Library Volunteer on her blog: Library Hungry
• The Chinatown Blog “Letter from Chinatown Storefront Library”
• Storefront Library: Bringing Community to Downtown Boston on Apples and VCRs.

BOSTON STREET LAB

• Boston Globe [8/26/09] “A Weedy Lot Blossoms” By Yvonne Abraham
• Pedestrian Friendly [8/27/09] “An urban vacant lot blossoms, if only briefly”
• Natural Resources Defense Council on Films at the Gate
• Stuff Boston “Bring Art to the Masses…”
• Boston Zest “Dinner and a Movie Al Freco Style”

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