Every day for weeks, here at the Centre for Digital Media in Vancouver, I have passed by an empty bookshelf in the hallway, just around the corner from the room where I’ve been staying.
I realize that this is a centre for digital media, but the sight of that bare bookshelf, looking so empty and forlorn, would tug at my heart every time. So finally I decided to do something about it.
This weekend, on a visit to Bowen Island, I came across a wonderfully illustrated book about Visual Thinking. I brought it back with me on the ferry yesterday morning, and put it on the shelf. Now at least there would be one book!
This morning I emerged from my room to discover that this first book had been joined by a second — a nice little paperback of short stories about Vancouver. Overnight, the number of books in our emergent library had doubled!
I am hopeful that people will continue to add books, and that our little shared bookshelf will grow and grow, one day becoming filled to the brim with good old-fashioned pre-digital media.
