How to ‘Marie Kondo’ Your Little Free Library
Unless you’ve been living under a stack of books, you’re probably aware of organizer-extraordinaire Marie Kondo and her mission to declutter the planet. To achieve that mission, Kondo—author of the bestselling book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up and...
How to Winterize your Little Free Library
Can your Little Free Library withstand the winter? If you’ve been wondering how to winterize your Library, or whether you should take it down until the weather warms up, read on! We’ll answer common questions about Library maintenance during the snowy...
Re-Energize Your Little Library–Repair & Maintenance
Now that some Little Free Libraries have been out in the weather for several years of hard winters, hot summers and storms of all kinds, many of them are ready for some repair and updating. Here are some tips to help renew your Library.
Everyone Doesn’t Always Follow The Rules…And It’s OK.
Steward Maria Gallegos loves and daily cares for her cute, little-red-schoolhouse-themed Little Free Library. It was a big hit in her small town of Dillon, Montana. When her neighbors informed her that the Library had been vandalized, with threatening words scrawled...
Our Best Advice Yet – Plus Some Mind-Blowing Statistics
There are now over 20,000 registered Little Free Libraries worldwide…a feat that we have accomplished together in about 2 1/2 years. That’s crazy. Holy cow do we feel honored to take part in the creation of such an awesome network of book lovers around the...
Host a Little Free Library Takeover
One question we hear often is how do I keep people interested in my Library after the initial excitement wears off? Some neighborhoods just naturally adopt Libraries and a steady ebb and flow of books comes naturally. For others, it takes a little more work,...