Albany Park Branch Public Library Workshops

Every second Wednesday of each month, North Branch Projects leads a basic bookbinding workshop at the Albany Park Branch Public Library. Held in the community room from 3:30-5 p.m., the workshop is open to all and is conducted as a kind of community binding session, where participants help construct parts of books for the archive.

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In exchange for their assistance and time making books forlearning new skills and binding processes, participants also For example, stab bindings may be taught Led by a teaching artist, these sessions 

A student contributes an entry into one of the books located at Little Village Lawndale High School.

Village Roller

A second 96 Acres Project pedestal was created and placed in the library of Little Village High School, where the student population made up the majority of responses. After a year in the school, it moved to another library: the local branch in Albany Park where many students from both Von Steuben HS and Roosevelt HS now engage in the dialogue.

 

Since: 2015

 

Current Location:

Albany Park Branch Public Library

3401 W. Foster

Albany Park, Chicago, IL