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Little Free Library in a Tokyo Metro station. The first Little Free Library was built in 2009 by the late Todd Bol in Hudson, Wisconsin. [9] Bol mounted a wooden container, designed to look like a one-room schoolhouse, on a post on his lawn and filled it with books as a tribute to his late mother, a book lover and school teacher who had recently died. [10]
Reference Librarian Matt Prigge constructed a Little Free Library out of old bookshelves from the South Milwaukee Library.
Over 1,200 (and growing) books published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, up to c. 2009, fully available to download as PDFs (though content is still copyrighted) from the Thomas J. Watson Library at the MMA. Exhibition and collection catalogues, many very large and well-illustrated, and much else.
Bernard Free Library, the first free public library in Myanmar; Carnegie Free Library of Beaver Falls, the first public library built in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, United States; Crompton Free Library, a library in Rhode Island; Enoch Pratt Free Library, one of the oldest free public libraries in the United States
In Whitefish Bay, Wis., last year, the city shut down a little free library citing a similar ordinance to the one in Leawood. Community support got the city to make an exception.
Freedom libraries [1] were community libraries set up by activist organizations and private individuals to serve African Americans during the civil rights movement.Many of these libraries were established in the summer of 1964, during a broader project of voter registration and other civil rights activism. [2]
The Enoch Pratt Free Library is the free public library system of Baltimore, Maryland.Its Central Library is located on 400 Cathedral Street (southbound) and occupies the northeastern three quarters of a city block bounded by West Franklin Street (U.S. Route 40 westbound) to the north, Cathedral Street to the east, West Mulberry Street (U.S. Route 40 eastbound) to the south, and Park Avenue ...
Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, as well as to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks." [2] It was founded in 1971 by American writer Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library. [3]