A small, blue box packed with books sits perched on the railing of Charlestown’s Harvest on Vine food pantry. The titles in this miniature library cycle in and out on a daily basis, but the structure ...

Now a nonprofit organization with a network of more than 150,000 free book exchanges in 120 countries, the Little Free Library movement started in 2009 when a Wisconsin man mounted a wooden container, ...

I love the Little Free Library movement, which started in 2009 when Todd H. Bol built the first Little Free Library in Hudson, Wisconsin, as a tribute to his mother. We're covered Little Free ...

The movement began because of the federal government shutdown, questions around SNAP benefits. But many are keeping their books inside and putting food outside in the little libraries though November ...

In 2009, Todd Bol was renovating his garage in Wisconsin when he ripped off its old wooden door. He liked the wood, though, and didn’t want to throw it out. So after staring at it for a while, he ...

Over the past five years, I’ve spent thousands of hours collaborating with Chicagoans — residents, block clubs, nonprofits, schools — to install the book-sharing stations known as Little Free ...

I’ve long admired those wooden Little Free Library box-on-pole stations set up outside thousands of Minnesota homes to traffic in the drug to beat all drugs — books. I see the book shacks everywhere I ...

FISHER — The Fisher school district will join the Little Free Library movement. The Fisher school board approved librarian Kelly Friedlein’s plan to install a box for books on school grounds that ...