NBDB's Book Nooks

THE National Book Development Board (NBDB), a government agency concerned with the books read and published in this country, has come up with a novel idea — Book Nooks.

These are modest places in remote areas where the internet is minimal, where there are no bookstores or libraries but where there are people who should read. So, the NBDB has, with the cooperation of local government units, nonprofits, and cultural and tourism officials, set up mini libraries for anyone in the area to use. They can read in places where the Book Nooks are, which may be a corner of a school, a niche in a government agency building (tourism office or a government service agency), a public place like a market or plaza, or they can borrow books to take home.