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...]
Books featuring Little Free Libraries (LFLs) and highlight placemaking concepts
One of the most popular placemaking initiatives that the Greater Victoria Placemaking Network is involved with is Little Free Libraries (LFLs). Teale Phelps Bondaroff has been leading the GVPN’s Pocket Places Project, that has LFLs at its centre, since the early days of the … [Read more...]
