BRATTLEBORO — The Brattleboro Rotary Club has collaborated with the Friends of Brooks Memorial Library to promote their Literacy Project's “Little Free Libraries.”
Started by Rotarian Todd Bol in 2009, 16,000 little libraries in 55 countries have been recognized as an “international movement,” by The New York Times and a “global sensation,” by the Huffington Post.
Seven Little Libraries, each handcrafted by the Rotary Club's Literacy Project Committee, headed by Chair Joe Little, are intended to foster and fund literacy in and around Windham County.
The Friends will sell six Little Libraries outright and raffle the seventh. They will be on display at Brooks Memorial Library, and be available for sale, beginning on April 9. Prices range from $250 to $300.
“This is more than fundraising,” explained Friends' Chair Joyce Marcel, “These sturdy wood boxes resembling birdhouses serve as neighborhood lending libraries and continue the 'take a book, return a book, ideology.'”
Learn more about Little Free Libraries at www.littlefreelibrary.org.