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

8 November, 20168 November, 2016LibrariesLeave a comment

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...

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

19 October, 20168 November, 2016Libraries13 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...

Tallapoosa County, Alabama Gets Its First Little Free Library

29 September, 201629 September, 2016LibrariesLeave a comment

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...

San Francisco Couple Opens Little Free Library Writ Large

11 September, 201614 September, 2016LibrariesOne 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...

Gainesville, Florida Launches Book Vending Machine Project

3 August, 20163 August, 2016Libraries2 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...

A Solution for Book Hoarders, and Overflowing Libraries

24 July, 20163 August, 2016Book Culture8 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...

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

16 July, 20163 August, 2016Book Culture3 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...

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

29 June, 20165 May, 2017Uncategorized6 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...

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

9 June, 20163 August, 2016Book Culture, Crowd-Funding, Freebies, LibrariesOne 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...

Daring Heist Results in Stolen Little Free Library in Brazil

23 May, 201618 October, 2016Libraries3 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...

Little Free Libraries Felled by Arson, Bureaucracy

11 September, 201512 June, 2017Libraries6 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...

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

10 August, 20155 May, 2017Digital Library, Library eBooks5 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...