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A new interactive map, created by a partnership between Banned Books Week, PEN America, American Library Association Office for Intellectual Freedom and Little Free Library, shows the locations of ...
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]
Here is a list of Little Free Libraries around Worcester. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Mail ...
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
Across the United States, volunteers are reporting a jump in little free libraries as readers look to pass the time. Since 2009, tens of thousands of little free libraries have sprung up in the U ...
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]
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.
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.