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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]
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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.
Little free libraries are mailbox-sized wooden boxes filled with books that people can put in their front yards. According to the movement's website , there are now little free libraries in all 50 ...
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
I’m an avid reader, I use the public library not only for books, but online classes, learn a new language, Libby, check out tools, & fun activities for the grandkids. Image credits: Genie_noteC #5
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