When a public-library branch in Long Island City, Queens, lost its lease and closed last winter, Frank Wu took action. The 35-year-old software company salesman and father installed a “little library” in nearby Court Square Park—a small, glass-fronted cabinet mounted in a planter festooned with ivy. Now, all day long, residents and office workers stop by to donate books and help themselves to free reads. “It wasn’t that much work,” says Mr. Wu. More than half of New York’s City’s 216 public-library branches remain closed since...

Source: Wall Street Journal October 20, 2020 13:52 UTC