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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]
Chicago’s City Council has a new menace to stamp out: Little Free Libraries, those small wooden bookcases outside some homes that invite passersby to take a book and leave a good read behind.
Todd Herbert Bol (January 2, 1956 – October 18, 2018) was the creator and founder of Little Free Library, a global public bookcase nonprofit organization. [2] In 2009, he used wood from his old garage door to make the first library-on-a-stick as a tribute to his mother, June Bol, [3] while living in Hudson, Wisconsin. [4]
After she moved to Manhattan, she added books to the Little Free Library at Freeman Plaza West in July 2020; by September, she had raised $16,000 for the initiative and purchased approximately 1,500 books from Black-owned bookstores. The Little Free Diverse Library project became active in all fifty U.S. states.
Reference Librarian Matt Prigge constructed a Little Free Library out of old bookshelves from the South Milwaukee Library.
Little Free Library is an international nonprofit that encourages people to build small, free community libraries. They are often in wooden boxes that resemble large birdhouses or in newspaper ...
The Public Libraries Act 1850 (13 & 14 Vict. c. 65) was an Act of the United Kingdom Parliament which first gave local boroughs the power to establish free public libraries. . The Act was the first legislative step in the creation of an enduring national institution that provides universal free access to information and literature, and was indicative of the moral, social and educative concerns ...
Little Free Library, a community movement in the United States and worldwide that offers free books housed in small containers to members of the local community New City Free Library , a library in New City, New York, United States