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Ilkley councillor urges people to use 'living library'
AN Ilkley councillor is urging people to visit Bradford Central Library to borrow a living book'.
Bradford Council is just one of four local authorities around the country taking part in this new initiative which has boosted library visitors in Denmark where it originated.
The Living Library' project has a key difference to any other project - the books' are human beings.
Living Library gives direct access to someone else's experience - by allowing the visitor to borrow' a person who wants to share their passion about a hobby, lifestyle or an interest.
The list of people who have put themselves forward to be borrowed' at Bradford include two goths, an allotment holder, a composter, a former vicar, a carer, a knitter, a Nightstop worker who works with homeless people, and a munroist - someone who climbs munros which are small mountains in Scotland.
So residents in the Bradford district can go along to the library, look at the list of human books' in a catalogue, choose who would they like to spend some time with for half an hour, and take the opportunity to pick up some life experience and knowledge from someone else in the local community.
Parish and district councillor Anne Hawkesworth, head of environment at City Hall, said: "This is a great opportunity for a library visitor to go along and meet someone they might never otherwise meet in their day to day lives."
6:13pm Tuesday 13th May 2008
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