By DANIELLE ZIRI - Jerusalem Post -07/09/2013
Beach library in Tel Aviv Photo: DANIELLE ZIRI
The Tel Aviv Municipality inaugurated a new library on Tuesday at the Metzitzim Beach, near the city’s port, allowing tourists and beachgoers to check out books for free during their leisure time there this summer.
The library, which consists of a two-wheeled cart stationed on the promenade, contains 523 books in five languages: Hebrew, Arabic, English, Russian and French.
Visitors who do not wish to read print books will also be able to use their personal tablets to connect to the free WiFi that the municipality provides all over the city, and download electronic reading material.
“The idea behind it was first and foremost to make books accessible to the largest public possible,” the head of the municipality’s culture department, Iris Mor, told The Jerusalem Post at the launch.
“In fact, the general goal is to make sure that people read and that they don’t see books as this far-away thing, but as something which is present everywhere.”
The library, which consists of a two-wheeled cart stationed on the promenade, contains 523 books in five languages: Hebrew, Arabic, English, Russian and French.
Visitors who do not wish to read print books will also be able to use their personal tablets to connect to the free WiFi that the municipality provides all over the city, and download electronic reading material.
“The idea behind it was first and foremost to make books accessible to the largest public possible,” the head of the municipality’s culture department, Iris Mor, told The Jerusalem Post at the launch.
“In fact, the general goal is to make sure that people read and that they don’t see books as this far-away thing, but as something which is present everywhere.”
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