What You Can Do to Promote and Support the Little Free Library Movement
A Little / Visit 1 Little Free Library. Take a book &leave a book. Leave a nice note in a Library.
Contribute $10-$20 to Little Free Library online. / Go on a Little Library walking/bike tour to nearby Libraries. Leave books in any Libraries that are running low.
Create a secret handshake or code so that Library-users may identify each other. Make it fun! / Create a Thank-You Writing Club & write special notes to leave inside Libraries or mail to other Library Stewards. / Give 1 book to any Little Free Library that you come across.
More / Stop by your neighborhood Little FreeLibraryoften.Give & take multiple books.
Get to know your neighbors. Offer to help Steward a Library near your house. / Have a Little Free Library party/book swap. Have everyone bring “a buck & a book” to donate! You could even screen the award-winning documentary “Because It’s Small.” / Organize a community-wide book swap have volunteers distribute books by biking, walking or driving to Libraries around town. / Be an example. Volunteer with nursing homes, libraries, schools, non-profits or charities.
Contribute time & money to national/world causes related to literacy and libraries.
Still More / Make bookmarks, mini-books or write thank-you notes & leave them in Libraries.
Mentor—Read aloud to someone or have them read to you.
Volunteer to run a weekly storytime for kids at a Library. Or at a senior center or assisted living facility. Sponsor or build one Library for someone else.
Join your public library’s Friends group and volunteer often. / Teach each other your favorite skills—help a child learn to read or read aloud to each other. Teach someone how to build a Library.
Plant a garden near a Little Free Library & offer the produce, herbs, flowers, etc. to passers-by.
Recruit people you know to become literacy tutors. / Teach—create a weekly tutoring session to increase literacy.
Plan & organize an event to raise awareness & funds for local non-profits concerned about literacy and libraries. Consider a movie screening, silent auction or seed and book exchange. / Teach—Support global education programs, especially those related to libraries, and literacy.
Build awareness beyond your community
Help raise money and advocate for nat'linternat'l intergenerational causes.
A Lot / Run a crowd funding campaign (Razoo, Kickstarter or Indiegogo)to raise money & awareness for Little Free Library. Funds could go to sponsoring Libraries for those in need.
Feel very good about doing your part. / Organize a group of friends, family or colleagues. Build one or more Little Free Libraries. Donate them to neighborhoods in a “library desert”—far from sources of books.
Run an information stand at the local farmer’s market. Collect books and spread the word about Little Libraries. / Organize a large-scale community build day. Donate the Libraries to folks in need.
Coordinate a Little Free Library or community awareness festival with activities for kids & adults (build Libraries, gather, sort & distribute books). / Be a national leader. Get public and private organizations and businesses to promote Little Free Library
Donate and raise lots of moneyfor intergenerational causes.
Feel really really great about this.
What You Can Do to Promote and Support the Little Free Library Movement