Calling all book lovers, bargain hunters, and Little Free Library heroes — it’s time to make space on your shelves and flex those tote bags! The Times Colonist Book Sale is happening this weekend – May 3 & 4 – and it’s one of the biggest (and best-loved) book events in … [Read more...]
Keep on sharing your ideas for the 100,000th book
We want to celebrate delivering our 100,000th book to a local LFL and need your help selecting the book. Last week, we invited our community network to submit suggestions for what should be the 100,000th book that we will distribute to a local little free library (LFL) in the … [Read more...]
What will be the 100,000th book delivered to our region’s Little Free Libraries?
Here at GVPN, we are inviting our community network to submit suggestions for what should be the 100,000th book that we will distribute to a local little free library (LFL) in the year that GVPN Turns 10! We want to celebrate delivering our 100,000th book to a local LFL … [Read more...]
Book Review – Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization and the Decline of Civic Life (2018)
Eric Klinenberg's book takes its title from what Andrew Carnegie said that he wanted the libraries that he funded, over 2,500 built in the late 1800s and early 1900s (mostly in the United States), to be. This sentiment was borne out in the libraries, many of which had high … [Read more...]
Bookish Scavenger Hunt and Book Launch of Up for Grabs by Michelle Mulder
A Golden Ticket Scavenger Hunt is taking place in Little Free Libraries across Greater Victoria! Award-winning local author, Michelle Mulder, is releasing a new children’s novel this spring, Up for Grabs. In honor of the book’s themes of hidden treasures and neighborhood … [Read more...]
