Video: Little Free Library: Free mini-libraries around the world
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Bookcrossing is a movement that is becoming more and more popular in the world from year to year. The idea of exchanging the read books, leaving them in public places, arose in 2001, and since then its fans have been growing. But in 2009, an equally commendable initiative arose - to create entire mini-libraries in which anyone could choose a book to their liking.
Little Free Library Is a new non-profit project aimed primarily at ensuring that people not only enrich their inner world by reading books, but also find friends and like-minded people with whom they could discuss what they have read. A small free library is nothing more than a small book rack that anyone can set up in their backyard. The rule of using such book depositories is very simple: take a book, do not forget to put another one in its place. Thus, there is a constant update of the "content" of the library. By the way, a similar principle is typical for street libraries, into which the British have converted many telephone booths (we recently told the readers of the site Kulturologiya.ru about this).
The idea to create such non-standard libraries came to the minds of the Americans Todd Ball and Rick Brooks. On the one hand, it helps to increase literacy among readers, broaden their horizons, on the other hand, it brings users closer together. In addition, many are creative in creating mini-libraries, so that they gradually become a real decoration of cities. Every year there are more and more small free libraries: in 2011, 100 were registered, today there are more than 6,000 of them all over the world, it is planned that by the end of the year there will be at least 25,000. Owners of such libraries can register them on the Internet in order to it was easier for potential readers to find books.
Small free libraries are certainly not the only project with quirky book collections. On our site, we have already talked about other funny book depositories. For example, the angel-inspired Laurentius Library, the Bookyard vineyard-library, and even the strange library of miniature books by Joseph Tari.
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