From toys to cake tins and tools, libraries are taking service to their communities well beyond books
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library,” the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges once said. He didn’t, however, spell out what kind – and the modern library does not necessarily resemble the bookish outfit of which the famously erudite Borges might dream.
Back in the day, Sir Redmond Barry, the great patron of the State Library of Victoria, insisted that its collection not contain anything “to attract the idle and inquisitive or to entertain the frivolous.”
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