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Left a copy of Mad from 1980. Fun!
Took 4 YA books (Paterson, Coffer, Cleary and Speare. B.C. sent me! 😛
Thank You!!
–LFL Patron on 10/3/16
Donations
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18 New Releases Going into the Library Today
14 middle grades books accompany a handful of contemporary novels and a thriller in today’s release.
We’ve updated our GoodReads bookshelf with all the books we’ve got in stock if you want to browse from home.
We’re also closing in the 500 book mark for total number of books donated to our Library!
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A “Little” Library Renovation
With the Central Branch of the Glendale Library closed for renovations, we thought we’d spiff things up a little bit too. (Fortunately, we only needed to close for a minute to do our upgrade.) Thanks, in great part to local donors, today we’ve replaced ALL of the books in the library with over 42 great new titles!
This batch includes:
- 11 brand new, never before read books
- 2 books written by a famous local author
- Fiction
- Thrillers & mystery
- A great spread of non-fiction (from medicine and sleep to history and archaeology)
- Our 4th copy of Wild by Cheryl Strayed (the most popular donation in the last year, but they always disappear as quickly too…)
- Our 3rd copy of the popular Like Water for Elephants
- An awesome selection of pulp fiction
- A tie yesterday(?) for #8 on our list of records for Largest Single One-Time Donations
Be sure to stop by today and resupply your night table.
Donations?
Do you have some books you’re done reading and want to share with your neighbors? We gladly accept your donated books – it’s part of what keeps the library a vital part of the community. Simply place your book donation directly into the library. Not enough space or need more information on donating? Maybe your question is answered here. Otherwise ask below in the comments, and we’ll do our best to help.
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Take a book, leave a book.
A New Donation of 12 Terrifically Diverse Books
An anonymous donor has dropped off 12 of the most interesting and diverse books this morning! Non-fiction fans will be particularly pleased.
Since there’s not much space in the library due to our new batch last week, we’ll start putting them out early next week as space becomes available. Thank You kind patron!
Celebrating Over 400 Books!
Thank You!
Thanks to the help and support of our extended community, we’re proud to announce that Little Free Library #8424 in Adams Hill has now had over 400 books donated to our neighborhood project!
When we started, I expected maybe 200 books in the first year, but with a month to go, we’ve done nearly double that. Nearly 20 donors have accounted for almost half of our volume, and to them we extend a huge thank you. But still the majority of donations come from every day users who simply “leave a book and take a book.” On behalf of all the users who’ve stopped by over the last year and given me their personal thanks or written in our Guest Book, I feel I must pass it back along to ALL of our users who really do the lion’s share of the work.
Keep in mind that this number is simply number of donations and doesn’t take into account overall circulation numbers of books coming back into the library, which, technically, because of the way we work are re-donations.
Any guesses on what the number will be when we hit our one year anniversary on July 28?
Long Holiday Weekend
We’ve still got about 50 books in the library currently so be sure to stop by and pick up something to read for the long weekend.
Guest Book: Sophia Gives a Hand
Over the weekend we found a great little note in our guest book! Thanks for stopping by and making a donation Sophia! We should have some new books in the library for your summer reading habit very soon…
The youngest minds go on the greatest adventures.
–Sophia Ospina, booklover, age: 12, Grade: 7
50 New Books!
Things had been feeling stagnant recently, and we had a nice stack of donations recently, so this evening we’ve swept out the old and brought in the new!
There are now more than 50 new books in the library! Stop by and check out the new offerings. We’ve got a little bit of everything from almost all genres.
Special thanks to our generous patrons including:
- Donovan & Family
- Pat
- Jeffrey
- Chris
- and 5 other anonymous donors
who’ve donated over 50 books in the past month and change. We’ve updated the “leader board” to reflect the donations.
No sooner had they gone in, but a few passersby have already managed to pick up some good reading for the night. Some were surprised to learn that there’s a bottom shelf “hidden” behind our Little Free Library sign on the front with even more books.
As always, happy reading!
Major Donation = Great New Selection of Books
This morning we were pleasantly and overwhelmingly surprised by a visit from first time patron and neighbor Kelly Buller. She left a huge donation of a variety of 26 books spanning fiction, biography, and several other areas of non-fiction. Her donation was so large that it equals the number of books we received on our opening day. What a wealth of riches!
Thank you Kelly!
Needless to say we’re turning over all of our current stock so that there is a lot of new material to choose from. We’re also including a donation of three Mario Puzo works from J. Fernandez (a City of Glendale employee, Water Department) on January 27th — the small one and two book donations comprise the vast majority of the books that flow through the library.
Whether you’re a donor big or small, I know everyone in the neighborhood appreciates your help!
New Year’s Resolution: Donate a Book a day for a Month
Happy New Year Everyone!
While thinking about what kind of new year’s resolutions to make for myself personally, it occurred to me: why not make a resolution for our local Little Free Library?
So in the spirit of giving for the holiday season, I resolve to put at least one book a day into Little Free Library #8424 for every day of the month of January. I hope this adds some new variety to what the neighborhood is reading.
After this, perhaps I’ll do a little bit of work on the Library’s wishlist.
Three New Books from Arthur C. Clarke’s Rama Series
Today, MisterRead donated three of the books from Arthur C. Clarke’s Rama Series: