When the old school building was repaired, the teachers asked for one empty room to be left unlocked after classes. Within a month, villagers had filled two shelves with donated books, most of them worn textbooks and a few novels with missing covers.
Nobody was appointed to run the room. Instead, older students kept a notebook by the door where borrowers wrote their names. Surprisingly, almost every book came back. The notebook itself became a record of what the village wanted to read: farming guides in winter, poetry before weddings, and exam guides in spring.
The lesson was not that libraries need large budgets. It was that trust, once offered, tends to be returned, and that a simple record can reveal needs that no survey had captured.