{"id":3715,"date":"2012-08-17T09:56:04","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T15:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryshenanigans.wordpress.com\/?p=1366"},"modified":"2026-02-11T22:51:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T22:51:19","slug":"mini-libraries-in-telephone-booths-in-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/2012\/08\/17\/mini-libraries-in-telephone-booths-in-england\/","title":{"rendered":"mini-libraries in telephone booths all over the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilovelibraries.org\/6-delightful-pop-libraries\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1370\" title=\"phoneboothlibrary\" src=\"http:\/\/jessyrandall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/phoneboothlibrary3.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a>We knew about some of the mini-libraries in <a href=\"http:\/\/libraryshenanigans.wordpress.com\/2012\/02\/22\/mini-libraries-in-nyc-phone-booths\/\">NYC<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/libraryshenanigans.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/17\/mini-libraries-all-over-town\/\">elsewhere<\/a> in the U.S., and we knew that red telephone booths in the U.K. were sprouting libraries as early as <a href=\"http:\/\/libraryshenanigans.wordpress.com\/2010\/02\/18\/phonebox-library\/\">2009<\/a>, but it seems the phenomenon is growing. The Netherlands has a portable children&#8217;s library in a shipping container, and Bulgaria has a library on a trolley. Thanks, <a href=\"http:\/\/sarahmilteerpaintings.blogspot.com\/\">Sarah Milteer<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We knew about some of the mini-libraries in NYC and elsewhere in the U.S., and we knew that red telephone booths in the U.K. were sprouting libraries as early as 2009, but it seems the phenomenon is growing. The Netherlands has a portable children&#8217;s library in a shipping container, and Bulgaria has a library on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenanigans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3q4oW-XV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3884,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3715\/revisions\/3884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}