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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.
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 ...
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]
Arsenals of a Democratic Culture: A Social History of the American Public Library Movement in New England and the Middle Atlantic States from 1850 to 1900 (Chicago: American Library Association 1947) Garrison, Dee. Apostles of Culture: the public librarian and American society, 1876–1920. Free Press (1979) ISBN 0-02-693850-2; Gisolfi, Peter A ...
The way patrons use library buildings is also changing. Libraries offered 3.75 million public programs in 2010, the equivalent of one free program per day in every public library in America. [5] Mirroring an increase in overall library usage, attendance at library programs increased by 22 percent between 2004 and 2008. [67]
Little free libraries are mailbox-sized wooden boxes filled with books that people can put in their front yards. According to the movement's website , there are now little free libraries in all 50 ...
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.