Mom and I went to the Arts Council of Southern Indiana building to see an exhibit by our friend Ardis Moonlight, and, in addition to that, got the skinny on Little Free Libraries. They have one outside the Arts Council building, so I snapped a couple of pictures.
Here’s the Little Free Library outside the Arts Council building (the ACSI website is down as of this date, but here’s the Google page).The Little Free Libraries are exactly what they sound like: they’re little waterproof boxes with doors, and they’re stocked with books. People are welcome to take books from them and are invited to replace them with other fair-condition books. Little Free Libraries are all over the world.
And here’s a close-up of that metallic flower sculpture thing above the Library. I love this. I just love it when stuff like this happens in a picture!In case you can’t tell, that’s the reflection of the house across the street. Crazycakes!
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A WRITING PROMPT FOR YOU: A character takes a book from a Little Free Library and finds something between the pages that propels the action of the story.
MA
Jane
August 8, 2013 at 8:32amMan, what a good idea. I could start a thousand of my own.
But the street would look funny with all those boxes….
Marian Allen
August 8, 2013 at 9:48amRemember that woman in Richmond near campus who turned her house into a library?
Jane
August 9, 2013 at 9:28amGirl, I had totally forgotten!
I chanced upon your Pinterest posting of a TARDIS Little Book Store yesterday. YUM!
Marian Allen
August 9, 2013 at 10:34amI have a friend who plans one of those for her front yard. ~grin~
Jessica Nunemaker
August 8, 2013 at 4:57pmI LOVE this idea!
Marian Allen
August 8, 2013 at 7:00pmMe, too! Maybe you could go to their web site and see all the places in Indiana that have Little Free Libraries?
Karen Casey Fitzjerrell
August 8, 2013 at 9:18pmCrazy Cakes is right! Loved the post. In Austin, Texas there are neighborhoods that encourage people to put boxes of books next to their front doors. Anyone wanting something new to read can simple take a walk with a handful of books they’ve read, take a neighbor’s book and leave one of their own in it’s place. Neat
Marian Allen
August 8, 2013 at 9:23pmThat IS neat! I wonder if people ever think, “Oh, I can’t put THAT book out — what would the neighbors think? I’ll go buy a copy of Proust and put that out instead.”?
Charmaine Clancy
August 8, 2013 at 9:49pmLove the little library, I think I need to pop one out the front of my house to help cull the piling paperbacks – and no, I wouldn’t worry about being embarrassed in front of my neighbours because of what I read… the dignity boat sailed long ago for me π
Like the happy flower sculpture too.
Marian Allen
August 9, 2013 at 7:44amCharmaine, I hear you on the dignity boat. I’ve been much harder to embarrass since my water broke in the middle of the hospital parking lot. Yeah, I guess that pretty much did it.
Tony Acree
August 9, 2013 at 12:08amWay cool. I love the idea of Little Libraries. I may have to put one in front of my house.
Marian Allen
August 9, 2013 at 7:44amTony, if you do, take a picture! π