ABOVE: The catalog shows some people available for conversations during Living Library sessions, which ran for two weeks in July. BELOW: From left are Kianna Muckle, Lantana library assistant and project coordinator; Shari Boochay, who discussed her life as an immigrant; Linda Rosen, author; Kelsey Hamm, polyamory/nonbinary; Sara Garcia, dance teacher; Darcy Gordon, bipolar disorder; Glenn Mendez, on ’The Trajectory of Life’; Lisa Keough, guidance counselor; Kristine Kreidler, library director and organ transplant recipient; Sarsy Nix, ’Life is Full of Surprises’; Quanteria Jones, ’An Untraditional Life’; Raquel King, flight attendant and author. Photos by Tim Stepien/ The Coastal Star
At the Lantana Public Library, books can be checked out for two weeks.
If it’s a very long book, or you’re a very slow reader, you can renew it for another two weeks. You can renew it up to five times, if no one else is waiting for it.
And for two weeks in July, you could have checked out an actual human being…