The Community Library Project

The Community Library Project is committed to the work of building the movement for a publicly owned, free library system that is accessible to all. TCLP has set up 3 libraries in Delhi NCR, catering to a membership of ~7000 children & adults, 7 days a week. We have also assisted several organizations in Delhi and beyond in creating free community libraries that welcome all. We are a member-organisation of Free Libraries Network FLN. We believe access cannot be built without reference to the history of excluding people from reading. It is important to critique the normalisation of the lack of libraries in India as a first step toward the argument for creation of a public library system. One of the central goals of The Community Library Project is to act as a lab for teaching and learning, a place where we discover, refine, and share ideas about how to successfully run community libraries in the diverse areas we work in. Though we always say we are free and open to all, we under...