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A US library is hoping to "smash" its "stuffy reputation" by erecting a nine-foot statue of the Incredible Hulk.A US library is hoping to "smash" its "stuffy reputation" by erecting a nine-foot statue of the Incredible Hulk.
As hundreds of libraries in the UK face the threat of closure, staff at the Northlake public library near Chicago have taken matters into their own hands, launching a fundraising appeal on Indiegogo for which they are asking readers to donate money to help them buy a Hulk statue, along with graphic novels and a "creation station" enabling borrowers to create their own comics and films.As hundreds of libraries in the UK face the threat of closure, staff at the Northlake public library near Chicago have taken matters into their own hands, launching a fundraising appeal on Indiegogo for which they are asking readers to donate money to help them buy a Hulk statue, along with graphic novels and a "creation station" enabling borrowers to create their own comics and films.
"Libraries are constantly changing and evolving beyond just a place to do schoolwork and use the internet. Today's libraries are celebrating creativity, entertainment and lifelong learning, and they are doing it with technology and popular materials including graphic novels. The problem is that many people still think of libraries in the old way. We want to smash that stuffy reputation with a nine-foot tall Incredible Hulk statue," write the Northlake team."Libraries are constantly changing and evolving beyond just a place to do schoolwork and use the internet. Today's libraries are celebrating creativity, entertainment and lifelong learning, and they are doing it with technology and popular materials including graphic novels. The problem is that many people still think of libraries in the old way. We want to smash that stuffy reputation with a nine-foot tall Incredible Hulk statue," write the Northlake team.
They chose the Hulk, they say, because "just as Dr Bruce Banner transforms into the Hulk, we want our library community members to make their own personal transformations through books, programmes and awesome new equipment".They chose the Hulk, they say, because "just as Dr Bruce Banner transforms into the Hulk, we want our library community members to make their own personal transformations through books, programmes and awesome new equipment".
The Northlake library needs to raise $30,000 (£19,700) and is offering donators a range of options, from a $5 "get-out-of-fines" card to a $20 postcard in which a librarian will dress up as a comic character and hold a speech bubble with a personalised message, to a $1,000 option to have a picture on a plaque in the library, a Hulk library card and a picture of the Hulk holding the plaque.The Northlake library needs to raise $30,000 (£19,700) and is offering donators a range of options, from a $5 "get-out-of-fines" card to a $20 postcard in which a librarian will dress up as a comic character and hold a speech bubble with a personalised message, to a $1,000 option to have a picture on a plaque in the library, a Hulk library card and a picture of the Hulk holding the plaque.
Ian Anstice, a UK librarian who blogs at Public Libraries News, called the campaign a "great project" that "shows how imagination and the internet can be used together in order to, at next to no cost, publicise a library and raise funds for it". Ian Anstice, a UK librarian who blogs at Public Libraries News, called the campaign a "great project" that "shows how imagination and the internet can be used together in order to, at next to no cost, publicise a library and raise funds for it". 
"I think it's the sheer incongruousness of the concept that's the winner," Anstice said. "Its relevance to the UK is that it shows clearly what can be done with no resources.""I think it's the sheer incongruousness of the concept that's the winner," Anstice said. "Its relevance to the UK is that it shows clearly what can be done with no resources."
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