What You Can Do to Promote and Support the Little Free Library Movement
How
Much?
You/Yourself
Family, Friends & Neighbors
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.
Create a Thank-You Writing Club &
write special notes to leave inside
Libraries or mail to other Library
Stewards.
More
Stop by your neighborhood Little Free
Library often. Give & take multiple
books.
Get to know your neighbors. Offer to
help Steward a Library near your
house.
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 story time
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.
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.
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!
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 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).
Still
More
A Lot
Feel very good about doing your part.
Community
Nation/World
Give 1 book to any Little Free
Library that you come across.
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.
Teach each other your favorite skills— Teach—create a weekly tutoring
Teach—Support global education
help a child learn to read or read aloud session to increase literacy.
programs, especially those related
to each other. Teach someone how to
Plan & organize an event to raise
to libraries, and literacy.
build a Library.
awareness & funds for local nonBuild awareness beyond your
Plant a garden near a Little Free Library profits concerned about literacy and community
& offer the produce, herbs, flowers,
libraries. Consider a movie screening, Help raise money and advocate for
etc. to passers-by.
silent auction or seed and book
nat'l & internat'l intergenerational
Recruit people you know to become
exchange.
causes.
literacy tutors.
Be a national leader. Get public and
private organizations and
businesses to promote Little Free
Library
Donate and raise lots of money for
intergenerational causes.
Feel really really great about this.