The scene: Sitting at home. Or a park. Or your neighborhood pool. You’ve been entranced within a page turner when you reach for the next page and you’ve sadly come to find the back cover. Your book is finished. But the desire to keep reading is just too strong. Why go all the way across town to the closest Mid Continent Public Library when luckily for you, Mid Continent has created the “Free Little Library” project?

The Free Little Library has been starting up not just in public places around Liberty, Missouri, but in nooks and crannies all across the nation! A Free Little Library is a small shelter (whether it be an open bird house, converted telephone booth, unique mailbox, etc etc) housing around ten selected books donated by Mid Continent Public Library.

Each converted space starts out with the ten-ish Mid Continent books, along with a possible few from the “keeper” of the Little Library (the person who watches over the library, makes sure it’s stocked, etc). People strolling by are encouraged to pick up as many titles as they’d like, and encouraged to leave books they wouldn’t mind donating for others to find! Once finished with a book the reader can either keep it or return it to a Free Little Library and pass it on!

About once a week, Mid Continent comes by to each registered Little Library and restocks the shelves with fresh titles, so you never have to worry about the selection getting boring. So when the hunger to keep reading strikes, find the one of many growing Free Little Libraries and pick up yet another page-turner for your day!

(The ultimate goal is to have one or two Free Little Libraries on every street to inspire readers! Want to start your own Free Little Library? Call your local Mid Continent Public Library for details on how to take on this easy project!)