This picture was taken a few years ago at a friend’s house in the Hollywood Hills with the garage door decorated to look like bookshelves. Nigel says he likes libraries — and his campaign photo (see earlier) shows him in front of his own library in Waikanae.

We like books too, and our own library has as many books as what are now on display in the Waikanae ‘pop-up’ library.

The ideal answer is to bowl the old Waikanae library building (which wasn’t originally intended for that purpose) and build an imaginative new one.  Earlier in the year we posted pictures of some notable libraries in other countries. They aren’t just there for lending books, but serve other community roles too.