Maybe calling it a "local communal library" is gilding the lily a bit, but it is local, it is a product of community action, and it is a library. Using "communal" is a bonus. It gets the rabid Right all hot under the collar.
In the recently-opened High Street shopping centre, about 500 metres from home, a book depository/exchange/library has been set up.
It's a very simple concept. Anyone with books excess to requirements can donate them to the library, at the same time as they take books away to read. The idea is one-for-one. That's where the exchange bit comes in.
There are no staff - no wages to pay. The maintenance staff (mostly cleaners) give it a routine once-over daily. That seems to keep it looking reasonably neat and tidy.
It's a great initiative. Let's hope greed and acquisitiveness don't conspire to stuff it up.
I know where lots of my excess to requirements reading matter is going to end up.
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