The barganews book exchange opens
Barganews Book Exchange – An english language book exchange opened this week in the offices of barganews.com. in Barga Vecchia.
barganews.com has been on line since 1996 and during those twelve years more than 2500 books have been collected and donated by visitors to their offices.
These books are now being put back into the public domain by the creation of a permanent library and book exchange.
Members of the book exchange pay a yearly subscription of Euro30 which allows them to exchange any book that they own for another from the bookshelves. They can exchange up to three books at a time and keep the books for up to three weeks.
An online database shows the members which books are available, keeps track of where the books actually are and reminds the members automatically via email if their books are overdue.
There is a second part-time membership open to non residents which is valid for one month and cost Euro 15 so that visitors to Barga can join in the scheme for their holiday reading.
As the barganews book exchange wanted to avoid the inconvenience of using most public libraries in Italy, which are only open during office hours, a more radical approach has been adopted allowing their full time members access to the library 12 hours a day and 7 days a week.
All full time members will issued with their own key to the library. They can let themselves in to leave their books, choose new ones, leaving just a note of the books that they have chosen before closing the door behind themselves as they leave.
barganews book exchange annual membership – Euro 30
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barganews book exchange one month membership – Euro 15
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