Maybe it's just me (in these cases it often is), but I find myself of late looking at my book shelf (or space in the corner) and wondering if I'm doing my beloved library a disservice - after all, is a book alive or dead if it's stored away and left unread (poetic)? Across the country, online community book-share schemes are being developed and the Society has been discussing whether we could set one up here.
Local people would be able to choose and upload books they were willing to share with other people in the area and in effect we could create our own virtual community library. The technological means already exist (http://www.nesta.org.uk/bookshare) but to make something like this work it needs people who would want to use it by sharing children's books, cookery books, the latest novels, classics, reference books etc.
What do you think? Could this work here? If you are interested and would like to discuss further please feel free to drop me a line. My email address is alex_kenmure@hotmail.com
