Little Free Library

It’s Bigger Than a Bread Box: 50,000 Little Free Libraries

8 November, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Little Free Library movement has overcome challenged including bureaucracy and kleptomania to achieve an impressive milestone. Last Friday the movement's founders announced that the fifty [Read More ...]

The Tragedy of the Commons Has Now Come to Little Free Libraries

19 October, 2016 // 13 Comments

Little Free Library supporters have encounters many of society's ills since the movement launched some years ago, including vandalism and bureaucracy, and now LFL operators in Minnesota are getting [Read More ...]

Tallapoosa County, Alabama Gets Its First Little Free Library

29 September, 2016 // 0 Comments

Some cities like Austin, Texas, or Detroit are blessed with corporate sponsors who donate the funds need to cover a community in Little Free Libraries, but not everywhere is so lucky. The local NBC [Read More ...]

San Francisco Couple Opens Little Free Library Writ Large

11 September, 2016 // 1 Comment

Many people have opened little free libraries to share their love of books with the world, but according to a local ABC News team in San Francisco Megan and Rick Prelinger have taken the idea to the [Read More ...]

Gainesville, Florida Launches Book Vending Machine Project

3 August, 2016 // 2 Comments

Little Free Libraries are small free-standing structures where the reading public can leave or take a book with no registration or library card required. These volunteer-run libraries are often [Read More ...]

A Solution for Book Hoarders, and Overflowing Libraries

24 July, 2016 // 8 Comments

Ebook lovers never have to worry about the size of their libraries, but Christina Spencer isn't so lucky. She writes in the Ottawa Citizen that she needs a self-help books for getting rid of books: [Read More ...]

What’s the Oddest Thing You’ve Found in a Little Free Library?

16 July, 2016 // 3 Comments

Little Free Libraries are supposed to be small structures where members of a community can leave or take a book with no fee or paperwork. But sometimes it doesn't work out that way. Writing for [Read More ...]

JetBlue Wasted Tens of Thousands of Dollars When it Installed Book Vending Machines in Detroit

29 June, 2016 // 6 Comments

Remember last summer when JetBlue got a lot of press for installing book vending machines in Washington DC's poorest neighborhoods? They've just installed more book vending machines in a reading [Read More ...]

Does the World Need a Paid Alternative to Little Free Libraries?

9 June, 2016 // 1 Comment

Individually, Little Free Libraries are small containers in public spaces where the public can borrow, exchange, or leave used books. Collectively, they're a movement to build local reading [Read More ...]

Daring Heist Results in Stolen Little Free Library in Brazil

23 May, 2016 // 3 Comments

Little Free Libraries have to contend with vandalism and bureaucracy here in the US, but in Brazil they are being stolen outright. The Tribuna do Ceara reports that the [Read More ...]

Little Free Libraries Felled by Arson, Bureaucracy

11 September, 2015 // 6 Comments

There's an old saying to the effect that no matter how beneficial a new idea might be, someone will still oppose it. That is certainly true for the Little Free Library movement. Little Free [Read More ...]

Toronto Public Library’s Book Vending Machines Are Like a Better Buggy Whip in the Era of Cars

10 August, 2015 // 5 Comments

Teleread tipped me to a new program from Toronto Public Library which won't be going anywhere. It seems the library is thinking about installing book vending machines in Toronto's Union Station. From [Read More ...]