LFL #9555 has seen better days 📚

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Photo taken at: Montrose Community Park

Little Free Library visits in the morning

While I was in the neighborhood this morning, I couldn’t resist stopping by the Montrose Community Park to check in on the Little Free Library there. (I also had a handful of kids chapter books that I thought might go to good use there.)

Vandalism and neglect

I was a bit disappointed at the level of neglect that Little Free Library #9555 has been experiencing. The Plexiglas front has been broken and removed, and the door’s wooden frame has been smashed in the process. The wooden LFL placard has been torn out and left, with rusting nails, on top of the library. The Plexiglas on the left side has been smashed and partially removed leaving some dangerous jagged edges.

Can you help?

Despite the poor shape of the library, at least it’s still there and functioning! If you have any books to donate to it and don’t want to make the trek, leave them with us and a post-it note, and I’m happy to drop them off in the coming weeks. I felt bad that donating 5 books almost doubled the contents of the library.

I hope someone from the Glendale Department of Library, Arts, and Culture takes notice and stops by to fix things up a bit. Perhaps sending someone up once a month to put in fliers on the Plexiglas sides for events like the upcoming One Book/One Glendale for Younger Readers 2016 event featuring author Katherine Applegate and the book The One And Only Ivan would help keep libraries like this in better shape? Surely there’s a few dollars in the renovation project for the Central Library to help out.

Montrose Community Park is a lovely place to sit and read

LFL #9555 has seen some better days

There’s some nice benches off in the shade with plenty of green space to play too.