Continuing on the British theme, I heard an interesting radio report on "The World" (carried locally on WYPR) about what may be the world's smallest library. The good folks in the English village of Westbury-sub-Mendip have remade an unused phone booth into a lending library. (Photo is a London phone booth, not the WsM version.)

According to the report, the mini-library can stock about 150 books at a time. Here's an excerpt from the interview with Janet Fisher, a villager who had the idea for the creative reuse (the best I've seen since the rails-to-trails program):

"We started off with four empty shelves and within a very few days, the villages had brought books that they read and enjoyed and they didn’t bring any rubbish, it was all lovely stuff and they’re exchanged on a regular basis. People bring a book and take a book. It’s never locked so it’s open all the time and there are now DVD’s and CD’s and we have a box on the floor for the children’s books and that’s very popular so it’s just taken off."