Malmsbury residents are opening a new chapter with the launch of a recycled community library at the Malmsbury Bakery.
Locals Flo Jones and Roslyn Stevens came up with the idea to create the library, which doubles as a book exchange.
“We were just sitting in the bakery one day and I said we should set up a community library,” Ms Jones said.
“I spoke to Katherine from the bakery and she thought it was a great idea.”
Ms Jones said they used a refrigerator from a neighbour to use as the base of the library and a local resident painted the outside.
Ms Jones said a motivation for creating the library was seeing Roslyn’s grandchildren react to the community library where they live.
“The whole idea behind it is to encourage people to read books. There are some crime stories, a couple of biographies, kids books, general fiction… its ranges. There’s been sci-fi, fantasy… anything and everything.
“It’s good to see that most of the kids books we’ve put in haven’t come back, which means they’re being read and read again.”
Ms Jones said Roslyn and herself make sure the library is topped up with books, but she does not mind if people want to keep some of the books.
“Books are coming and going which is fantastic… we’re both quite avid readers and we’ve always got books to get rid of.
“People are also swapping books but we don’t care if people take a book and don’t bring it back as others bring [extra] books.”
