'Little Free Libraries' in the Midwest

YAY!!!!  I love it . . .

Earlier this week I reposted about the free sidewalk libraries in Germany, but according to PW's Shelf Awareness we have a few places in the Midwest with a gratis book program of its own. The St. Paul Pioneer Press reported that "handmade, miniature wooden houses holding free books are popping up in neighborhoods throughout the Midwest. The 'little free libraries,' as they're called, are popularizing the concept of paying it forward, one book at a time."

 

 

 

"It's fun watching people go by and looking at it and figuring out. People seem to know (what it is and) they want to know how it got started and why," said Sage Holben, a library technician at Metropolitan State University and the steward of "the sage-green, house-shaped box sits in the middle of a public garden at East Fourth Street and Bates Avenue."

 

Todd Bol is the co-founder of the Wisconsin-based nonprofit Little Free Library. In less than two years, Bol's nonprofit has built more than 100 little free libraries.

 

I want one NOW in my town . . . Friends of Libraries organizations, are you listening? What about using some of those donated books?

 

Shutta