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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]
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.
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
Reference Librarian Matt Prigge constructed a Little Free Library out of old bookshelves from the South Milwaukee Library. This St. Francis man built a Little Free Library with recycled ...
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Public bookcase in use, Bonn, Germany (2008) A public bookcase (also known as a free library or book swap or street library or sidewalk library) is a cabinet which may be freely and anonymously used for the exchange and storage of books without the administrative rigor associated with formal libraries.
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 ...