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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.

Mystery and Thriller Take Over for Halloween

As a result of a huge cache of mysteries and thrillers donated by our neighbor Denise recently, we’ve decided to do a Little Free Library “take over” for books in these genres.

For the week of Halloween from 10/25-11/1 we’ve replaced all the books on the upper shelves with mystery and thriller novels. There’s lots of John Grisham, Dan Brown, David Baldacci, Gillian Flynn, James Patterson, Brad Thor, Dean Koontz, J.K. Rowling, P.D. James, and many others. In all it totals to more than 38 new books in the library today! In fact, it was so many books, we’ve had to make some room on our lower shelf to fit them all in.

After the week is over, we’ll go back to a more balanced selection of fiction and nonfiction that we’ve always had, though we’ll surely keep what’s left and rotate it through the library in the near future.

Come and get them while they’re hot!

 

Big Day of Donations

Yesterday certainly has to be our biggest day of donations since our grand opening.

In the early morning we saw some children’s books including:

Which showed up along with a Michael Faber (who was the first author to appear in our Little Free Library):

Then in the afternoon, some comedy and philosophy (which includes our first textbook):

And late in the day, neighbor Rondi Werner stopped by with some more children’s books:

A BIG THANK YOU to everyone who made a donation today!

 

Bookplates, boomerangs, and magazines – Oh My!

Bookplates

Our custom book plates arrived today!

Now it’s much easier to register books on Book Crossing and give them their own unique BCID’s. We’ve added them to the 12 books currently in our collection as well as the many books we’re getting ready for our Grand Opening this coming Sunday.

Patrons can enter the BCID numbers from the bookplates to see where the book has been before them.  They can also enter in their ratings, reviews, and comments before re-releasing them back to our library or passing them along to other Little Free Libraries or friends.

Little Free Library #8424 Bookplate

Little Free Library #8424 Bookplate

Our First Boomerang

Our very first outside donation, has “boomeranged” back to us. While we don’t always necessarily expect our books to come back to our branch, it’s great to know that they’re being read and appreciated instead of sitting on our shelves just looking pretty. The accompanying note in our guest book on the return was:

“Thank you so much for the great books. They are really appreciated.”

Magazines

We’d also like to note that one of our neighbors up the hill donated a handful of magazines including Time, Sports Illustrated, and Rolling Stone among many others. While we would typically discourage the donation of magazines, these are all popular issues that are current within the last few weeks.

Bookshelf Updated

Our current offerings have been updated on our Good Reads bookshelf.

Our First Native BookCrossing

Yesterday, we had someone donate our first natively registered Book Crossing release: Dean Koontz’s Life Expectancy. Thanks loveschocolate for visiting our library and making the donation!

First Entry in Our Guestbook

“We love Book Crossing and Little Free Libraries, so thanks for doing this! We’ll be back! Have a happy day!”

-D&L

Initial Stock of Books

Today, we added the initial stock of books to our new library.  Planning has commenced for some type of grand opening. If you have any thoughts on grand opening ideas, please add them below.

Our first book added on 7/28/15 was The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber.