Cohousing-L Mailing List: RE: Scaling down libraries

[Rowenahc (rowenahc]

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From: cohousing-l [at] freedom2.mtn.org
Yeah, storage space is important.  I'm also trying to figure out what to
do with my library of over 10,000 books.  Personally, I'd love to see a
common house library become a common feature, I'm willing to share lots of
my books, and I'll bet other people feel the same way.

-- Matt

Books are a major lifestyle anchor!  When I decided to move to cohousing I
also decided to unload the vast majority of my books!   We do have a library
in Cambridge Cohousing so I was able to deliver boxes and boxes to the
common house without actually "disposing" of them.  Of course, many other
households did the same and we ended up with far more books than space in
the library.   However, our dedicated Library Committee sorted them all out,
got rid of duplicates and unsuitable books and organized them in the Library
itself and also in a bunch of "satellites" scattered around the community.
Being urban we have three buildings with flats in them and common halls
which accomodate smaller libraries such as "Detective Storeis and Science
Fiction," "Gardening and How To Books,"  "Biographies" and of course there
is a selection in the Children's room.   It was a bit of a wrench initially
but now I'm used to just having a couple of hundred books in my house and I
love being able to wander around the community and pick up a bunch of great
books to bring home and browse or read!

It can be done.
Rowenahc