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Cheng & Tsui was recently contacted by Leslie Davol of Boston Street Lab, Inc., a nonprofit producer of temporary programs and installations in downtown Boston. Leslie invited us to participate in one of the Street Lab's projects, a temporary storefront library in Chinatown that will launch in Fall 2009, an invitation we were happy to accept. We donated a selection of volumes from our extensive archives, primarily children's literature as well as some adult books. All of our customers are encouraged to visit the Chinatown Storefront Library website to learn more about the project and how you can become involved.
UPDATE: The Chinatown Main Street Festival scheduled for this Sunday, June 21st, has been postponed due to the weather forecast. The event has been tentatively rescheduled for Sunday, July 12th. The Chinatown Storefront Library will still have a booth, including a mini "reading room" featuring some of Cheng & Tsui's donated material, a computer with Internet access, information about the project and more!
If you would like to donate books, funds or other resources to the Storefront Library, please visit their donation page to learn more. Cheng & Tsui is also happy to accept book donations on behalf of the Storefront Library; please e-mail marketing at cheng-tsui dot com (replace "at" with "@" and "dot" with ".") if you would like to do so.
Boston's Chinatown is the nexus of one of the most vibrant Asian-American communities in the country, but has been without its own branch of the Boston Public Library since 1956. Boston Street Lab, in conjunction with the Harvard Graduate School of Design's Department of Micro-Urbanism, will bring a temporary library to an abandoned commercial space in Chinatown for three months later this year. The library will provide services including Internet access, newspapers, periodicals and children's literature, all available for free to the public in an attractive and functional space. By making the library available on a temporary basis, the project organizers hope to demonstrate the viability and impact of a permanent branch library in the area.