As many of you know, about two years ago Braswell Memorial Library assumed operation of the Wesley Privette Memorial Library (WPML) in Bailey, NC. As part of our services to the Bailey Community we recently started a Little Free Library on the front lawn of WPML. What is a Little Free Library? It is a worldwide connected group of library stewards and book lovers sharing their favorite literature and stories. There are Little Free Libraries all over the United States and the world. Ours is the first one in Bailey. In its simplest form a Little Free Library is box of books where anyone may stop by and pick up a book (or two) and drop off another book to share. Yes, it is a free book exchange, but it is so much more!
Don’t have a book to drop off and trade? No problem! You are still welcome to get a book from the Little Free Library. Want a good book to read and WPML is closed? No problem. The Little Free Library is open all the time. Got a book from the Little Free Library and love it so much you can’t bear to part with it? No problem! Keep it! Bring us another book when you can. And if you can’t bring another book? That’s not a problem either. Have you read a wonderful book that you want to share with your neighbors but don’t quite know how to? No problem! Put it in the Little Free Library and let them discover it!
There are no due dates, no late returns, and no fines. Just books to borrow and share. Is everything available from the Little Free Library? No. No library has everything. We try to have a nice selection of adult and children’s fiction and nonfiction in our Little Free Library. But what you can’t get from the Little Free Library you can probably get from WPML or Braswell Memorial Library.
So stop by and check out our Little Free Library in Bailey. Or, if your travels take you elsewhere check out any Little Free Library you encounter. Want to search them out? Check out http://littlefreelibrary.org/ourmap/ to see a map of Little Free Libraries worldwide.
Who knows? You might even be inspired to start your own Little Free Library.
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