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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]
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 ...
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.
Little Free Library, trading posts that offer free books, housed in small containers, to members of the local community; PaperBackSwap, an online book swapping club restricted to the USA; Lenro, used to connect book readers locally (same college/neighborhood)
Licking Heights will soon have Little Free Libraries at North Elementary, South Elementary, West Elementary and the new elementary opening next year.
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 ...
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]
In Whitefish Bay, Wis., last year, the city shut down a little free library citing a similar ordinance to the one in Leawood. Community support got the city to make an exception.