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
Things were getting stagnant in the late Spring, so with the official start of Summer we’ve broken out about 30 new books for your reading pleasure. Thanks again to all our regular patrons, and particularly our donors for allowing us to regularly offer new material!
Stop by and see what’s new at the Adams Hill Little Free Library!
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:
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!
We’ve recently had several books come back into stock that have been out for a while, so if you haven’t checked out our bookshelves for a while, now is a good time to see what we’ve got.
We’ve also been stockpiling donations for a few weeks and are about to remove everything currently in the library and replace it with all new stock! So here’s the last(?) call for the great stuff we’ve currently got…
If you’ve got something you’d like to donate for the upcoming restock, please feel free to leave it inside the library this week.
In conversing with passerby recently, we’ve realized that some people don’t realize that there is a top and a bottom to our library! Yes, indeed, there’s an obvious glass door on the top that opens down, but there’s also a door below it (with the white Little Free Library sign on it) that opens up to the left. Typically we keep some current magazines, children’s books, and young adult selections as well as some additional adult pulp fiction in that section.
Hey Glendale, why don’t we try this?! Hooray for Hollywood
Have you ever dreamed of getting paid to start a Little Free Library? If you live in West Hollywood, California, you’re in luck.
There, the city is offering eight $600 grants to build and maintain Little Free Libraries.
It’s a great deal: To receive one of the grants, residents of West Hollywood apply through the city’s website, pledging to install, register, and maintain a Little Free Library on private property for at least one year. The Libraries can be purchased or built by the steward.
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!
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.
There are wonderful hardbound copies of all 7 titles in the Harry Potter Series now available in the library.
Due to the kindness of one of our regular patrons, we’re going to have the entire Harry Potter series available in hardcover on February 1st. We’ll feature these and other works of J.K. Rowling for the entire week.
If you’ve got any lightly used copies of any J.K. Rowling works (or even DVD/Blue Ray versions) you’d like to donate, please feel free to stop by and drop them off.
This week we were honored to be featured on the main Little Free Library Blog in a post entitled “Got Little Free Library Envy? Start Here.” as a source for publicity, social media and grand openings.
Little Free Library #8424 – this blog will share tried-and-true tips to get publicity for your Little Library. They cover everything from social media to grand opening tips to resources on our website that they like for reaching out to local media.
Our tiny hobby has come a long way in just six months. Thanks again to all our neighbors, patrons, donors, and friends who all help make the magic happen.
We’ve updated the list more than 56 free books that are on our bookshelf right now.
We’ve also passed more than 250 books through our library since we opened and are well on our way to 300. Thanks to everyone in the Adams Hill neighborhood and beyond for your help!
Is there anything (author, title, genre) you’d like to see us try to acquire or which you wish the community might contribute? Let us all know in the comments.
