Little Free Library #1 in Fayetteville, Texas
Lights around pole for nighttime perusers
Shelves allow for many books, without wasted space
Little Free Library #2 in Fayetteville, Texas
This library has openings on each end...here...
...and here.
Inside the library was a little notebook, where givers and takers could leave little comments.
There were also little stickers to keep.
Little Free Library #3 in Fayetteville, Texas
A bus theme
Lots of room for books
The reason there are so many Little Free Libraries in Fayetteville, Texas? I was told that the town has no public library. A bond issue to build a public library was turned down by the voters (though, according to this source) a bond issue for a sports park was passed. To help make up for a lack of a public library, several community members jumped on the Little Free Library bandwagon.
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Love them, we mostly have ours in Phoneboxes but I hav eseen the odd on like you showed
ReplyDeleteIt's a great use for an old phonebooth.
DeleteDeb,
ReplyDeleteThese are so neat. I recall the first time I came across one. I had to photograph it. It was in another town while on one of our day trips. I can't recall where that was now. However, since that time they have moved into parts of our city which is really cool. Happy WW!
Yes, there are many thousands now.
Deletei have seen some great ones, but haven't seen any around me. i have thought of creating my own because they are such a great idea.
ReplyDeletesherry @ fundinmental
You should.
DeleteI love little free libraries soooo much! I always squeal with glee when I find one randomly when I'm out. My favorite one was in a tiny little fishing village in Norway. I was walking off the dock toward the few buildings the town had and lo and behold inside a phone booth was a little free library!
ReplyDeleteWow! How fun.
DeleteWe have them here all over too and I think it is wonderful idea that people can take books for free instead of throwing them away !
ReplyDeletePeople stop by my LFL all the time.
DeleteThese are wonderful, but what a shame the community doesn't have a public library! I won't take mine for granted, that's for sure.
ReplyDeleteI will never take my public library for granted either.
DeleteI love those little libraries. I'm not sure we could have something like that around my neighborhood but I love the idea.
ReplyDeleteYou should start one.
DeleteI love the fact the citizens took matters into their own hands. We have a LFL in our neighborhood.
ReplyDeleteMe, too.
DeleteThat's a fairly good ratio of free little public libraries in such a small town! How sad that sports got a yes, but books a no.
ReplyDeleteIt's Texas. Sadly, sports always gets a yes over anything else.
DeleteI couldn't believe how many were in this tiny town.
ReplyDeleteWOW, that's impressive. We have (1) but it's not in a real walkable locale. It was a girl scout project, I heard. In my daughter's town there are (2) and one is on the bike trail near a coffee shop so very popular.
ReplyDeleteLove these! Especially the notebook for people to write in. We have three in our town with a too notch library. It's nice to see the citizens doing what they can.
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