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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]
Dewey-free (also Dewey free, Dewey-less, or word-based) refers to library classification schemes developed as alternatives to Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC). Dewey-free systems are often based on the BISAC subject headings developed by the Book Industry Study Group , and are typically implemented in libraries with smaller collections.
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.
Reference Librarian Matt Prigge constructed a Little Free Library out of old bookshelves from the South Milwaukee Library.
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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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