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February is National Library Lovers’ Month.
National Hot Breakfast Month. National Library Lovers Month. National Macadamia Nut Month. National Self-Check Month. National Snack Food Month. National Women Inventors Month.
NLW has spread to different countries. The first National Library Week of the Jamaica Library Association was held March 6–12, 1966. [7] Libraries Week display in 2017, Skipton Library, UK. Australia's Library and Information Week is organized by the Australian Library and Information Association, and held annually at the end of May. The ...
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]
Banned Books Week is an annual awareness campaign promoted by the American Library Association and Amnesty International, that celebrates the freedom to read, [1] draws attention to banned and challenged books, [2] and highlights persecuted individuals.
Boots Book-Lovers' Library was a circulating library run by Boots the Chemist, a chain of pharmacies in the United Kingdom. It began in 1898, at the instigation of Florence Boot (née Florence Annie Rowe), and closed in 1966, following the passage of the Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964 , which required councils to provide free public ...
As literary enthusiasts worldwide prepare to celebrate World Book Day, Airbnb unveiled a new opportunity for bookworms: an overnight stay in the Hidden Library of St Paul’s Cathedral for £7 ($8 ...
Belle da Costa Greene, pastel portrait by Paul César Helleu, ca. 1913. [1] Belle da Costa Greene (November 26, 1879 – May 10, 1950) was an American librarian who managed and developed the personal library of J. P. Morgan.