As of: February 16, 2024, 1:32 p.m
By: Laura Forster
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Well filled: the bookcase in Garching at Maibaumplatz.
© Gerald Förtsch
Some people have recently used the bookcase in Garching as a dumping ground for their discarded works.
The city is now looking for sponsors to keep the exchange cell tidy.
Books scattered all over the place, stacked against the glass pane and even stored in boxes that we had brought with us: only recently the bookcase at Maibaumplatz in Garching was once again reminiscent of a storage room.
Unfortunately, this is not the first time that the exchange cell has been misused by citizens as a place to dump rubbish.
“Unfortunately, that happens from time to time.
We can’t prevent people from breaking up their household and stuffing everything into the closet,” says Garching’s manager Sylvia May.
To ensure that something like this happens less and less, the city is now looking for volunteer carers for the book cell, which has been standing between the supermarket and the subway station since spring 2021.
The sponsors should regularly take a look at the contents and condition.
The public bookcase is a former telephone booth.
With it, books can be offered for exchange or take-away around the clock, free of charge, anonymously and without any formalities.
The book cell was sponsored by the Rotary Club of Garching-Ismaning.
Anyone who is interested in this foster sponsorship and would like to volunteer here can contact Thomas Brodschelm on 089 /32 08 93 01 or thomas.brodschelm@garching.de or library manager Claudia Bruch on 089 /32 08 91 77 or claudia.bruch@ Report garching.de.
Further news from Garching and the Munich district can be found here.