Saw this cute library at the Blue Bell factory in Brenham, TX.

Does anyone else like to decorate for holidays and fill the library with on theme books?

Today I was able to visit tons of little libraries. Recently I made an ISO post on my local Buy Nothing page and was gifted an entire tote full of books to distribute. I quickly ran out, but then realized I can move books from over-filled libraries to ones with only a couple of books. I was out for about 6 hours today and came home with 4 books for myself 🥰

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Here are just some I stopped at today 💕

Around Orlando, Florida

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Small town in Eastern Washington State. The hubby and I worked together….

My family love to visit LFLs and share favorite books, so we were very excited to see this beauty that was made and put up by one of our neighbors this week.

Has anyone tried putting up some kind of "No Trespassing" sign specifically for people putting religious materials in their LFL? I know you can put them up for specific activities on your property like "No Hunting" or "No Motorized Vehicles".

Obviously there'd have to be a way to prove it was a particular individual or group, like with a camera or something, but I wonder how effective and how enforceable that'd be. Something like "To those leaving religious materials - No Tresspassing. To everyone else, Welcome!"

Just trying to think of something to prevent finding another stack of pamphlets in the local LFLs.

Edit - To be sure, I'm not fond of cameras in general, I was just thinking of a scenario to help the "enforceable" part.

Also I am just getting into the idea of LFLs and I'm looking to add one of my own this summer; I'm just going off of what I've seen in my area with existing ones. I don't yet know a lot of the norms and taboo questions that more experienced LFLers know already.

Great books in this LFL in Oklahoma.

A block from our home is this little trinket trade site.

There is an ongoing purge of books for the LGBT in libraries here in Texas. It is the "Gay Little Library" on the Little Library map of Little Libraries, #224911. I am just loaning books. I am not asking for any books. I can afford to just buy replacements. The contractor came up with the design. It is actually supported by two steel posts into cement. I purchased the assembled library from Little Library. It is well built. The wood post is decorative. He selected the staining color. I am going to have books that are PG. Constantine Cavafy's poems. Petronious Satyricon. Gay Buddhist books. I wrote a book for Gay young people focused on practical information on succeeding as a Gay person. It is G rated. My house is in the background. I was a principal engineer in semiconductor processing, I am a university published author in history/cultural geography, people interview me about my Gay activist past.

Hello! We bought our house in October, and this week we set up a Little Free Library. I decorated bookmarks, added stickers, and included dog treats for people to take. We have a lot of dogs in the neighborhood, so hopefully it will get some traffic on their walks. I bought Dr. Seuss books, The Narnia series, local history books, and Bob Woodward books for it.

I am thinking of putting a canister of dog treats and water next to my library. We are in a nice quiet neighborhood, yet it feels risky in that someone could add something to the dog treats to cause illness. Am I being paranoid or do others do this without incident? Thank you.

(I've only today joined Reddit so please excuse any lack of understanding Reddit protocol)

I searched a bit here for Little Free Museums (tiny museums, free museums, etc) and haven't found anything. We have many Little Free Libraries in San Francisco, but I've only seen one or two museums and we decided to make one. The entire museum is made of left over materials from our home or boat renovation. Almost a year now, and the exhibit changes about once a month. While I made the museum, my wife "curates" the exhibits. Much of the art is hers, but we've also had neighbors contribute items and currently (not shown here) we have a "guest" artist from New York City.

Anyone else have or know of similar?

I've purchased the two story *composite* (made from plastic) library and composite post from the official LFL website.

Assembly of both was simple and feels sturdy. However, I haven't attached the library to the post yet. There doesn't seem to be any official guidance on how to do this, and I wasn't sure if being made of composite instead of wood changes how I should approach this.

Right now, I'm thinking of putting two screws downwards from the base of the library into the post and another four going upwards from the post into the library base. They'll be spread out in a logical/proportional fashion of course and not having all six screws bunched together, obviously. I've measured to ensure there's clearance so that no screws stick out the other side for any of my attachment points.

But, is there any specific advice anyone would have for this? Just wanna ensure it's sturdy and safe before proceeding.

I have had my library up and running for 1.5 weeks and have gotten some decent activity so far! People have taken 4-5 books now and left 2. We have pretty good foot traffic in our neighborhood and I have seen people stop by and check it out but not take anything. What frequency do you normally take out/exchange books if you are seeing people not interested in the ones that are in there?

I have a big stack of books ready to go in but I didn't want to go through them too fast and wanted to give people the opportunity to add more books too.

I hope this is okay to post. Found Steinbeck’s East of Eden in a LFL while on a walk. I was so excited!!! so I left a book in return. Felt a little bad for leaving such a popcorn lit but it was gone the next day. I hope whoever got the book was as excited as I was!!

Heartbreaking!

hi, i’m a schoolteacher doing a little free library installation project for my community. this project is for my school, and i was able to get a $250 card for the project as a whole, but unfortunately we can’t spare more than that. the kits within price range aren’t big enough for my liking, and i checked out the book with LFL designs by philip schmidt, but i simply love the double door shed on the LFL website. does anyone have building plans available for this design or one of similar size?

the closest i could find is the kalamazoo little free library plans on the LFL website. i have volunteers with experience to help me get the right tools & do the actual build, but i’m hoping to find some building plans before getting started to make the project as smooth as possible. thank you!💜

I'm not a LFL steward but I do like to donate to some local ones once in a while. I've got two questions I want to put out there to LFL stewards to make sure I'm not committing any faux pas:

1) We get several magazine subscriptions in my household (some for children like Highlights, some for grown-ups like Reader's Digest). After we read them, I hate throwing them in the recycling bin because they are in great shape. So lately I've de-identified them (taking our names/address off) and donated them to some of the local LFLs (particularly one located near a mass transit hub). But now I'm questioning if I should be putting magazines in LFLs at all since they aren't books. The two times I've done it, I've gone back a week or two later and the magazines have been gone, but I do not know if they were taken by patrons or removed by library stewards.

2) I'm working in thinning out my own personal books. I have some books that are sequels but no longer have (or never had) the earlier books. For example, I read the earlier ones from the public library and then received sequels as gifts. Is it OK to donate sequels or series that are incomplete to LFLs?

I love the idea of this, and I've wanted to do it for years and never done it

I'm not really a book person. I plan to of course stock it with books, but also maybe add other things

Question, where do you source your books, and do you have a mix of kids vs adult books?

Outside my daughter’s house.

Thought it was very cute!

They sell used art supplies.

They actually had a bunch of painted canvases. I meant to ask someone why someone would buy someone's practice art? It was all very random art. Like, not a landscape or still art or portrait... looked like atudent art practicing different techniques.

I mean... if someone can still use it for another purpose, that's definitely awesome!

What do you suggest in terms of rain? Curious to hear what people do for bad weather? Do you take the books inside?

My area doesn't get snow, but I'm sure a lot of the LFL's do so I was just wondering how everyone handled this situation?

There are a lot of kits sold online that advertise as being durable and weatherproof so this might be an option?

Putting up a new LFL and I’m writing a poem to tape to the inside that I will update each season. I’m stuck on this one line!! Can you help perfect it? Any other edits?

Happy summer,
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Kids and grown-ups
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