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A Girl Scout troop asked them to support an LGBTQ+ affirming little library and they jumped at the chance, Batts said. Little Free Library is an international nonprofit that encourages people to ...
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.
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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]
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]
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I suggest that "Little Free Pantries and Blessing Boxes" section be moved to the more inclusive article Public bookcases, perhaps retitled, "Other public sharing kiosks", or similar. (Little Free Libraries are only one example of public bookcases.) Acwilson9 03:43, 16 March 2020 (UTC) I am inclined to agree.
Construction of former President Obama's long-awaited library and museum in Chicago began with ambitious plans for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) but is now plagued by huge cost overruns ...