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 thousandth Little Free...
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The Tragedy of the Commons Has Now Come to Little Free Libraries
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 a...
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Tallapoosa County, Alabama Gets Its First Little Free Library
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...
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San Francisco Couple Opens Little Free Library Writ Large
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...
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Gainesville, Florida Launches Book Vending Machine Project
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 small, wooden...
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A Solution for Book Hoarders, and Overflowing Libraries
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...
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What’s the Oddest Thing You’ve Found in a Little Free Library?
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...
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JetBlue Wasted Tens of Thousands of Dollars When it Installed Book Vending Machines in Detroit
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...
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Does the World Need a Paid Alternative to Little Free Libraries?
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 communities through...
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Daring Heist Results in Stolen Little Free Library in Brazil
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 local biblioteca compartilhada, or...
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Little Free Libraries Felled by Arson, Bureaucracy
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...
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Toronto Public Library’s Book Vending Machines Are Like a Better Buggy Whip in the Era of Cars
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...
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