Little Free Library to Launch an Indigenous Library Program

Little Free Library is launching the Indigenous Library Program this spring. The caller programme volition administer LFL book-sharing boxes to tribal lands and different Indigenous communities. Boxes volition beryllium shipped to unpaid stewards for escaped and volition travel with 2 sets of books — 1 acceptable volition diagnostic 25 books written and/or illustrated by BIPOC authors and different 25 books volition halfway Indigenous people.

The caller programme has an advisory radical consisting of educators, authors, and librarians, astir of whom are Indigenous, each of whom person a agelong past serving Indigenous communities. The programme aims to “strengthen community, animate readers, grow casual publication access, enactment affirmative literacy outcomes, and marque small escaped libraries disposable successful high-need locations serving Indigenous peoples.”

The programme is portion of Little Free Library’s Native Library Initiative, which itself was started from LFL’s Impact Library Program. The intent of the Impact Library Program is to supply escaped room boxes and starter sets to unpaid stewards passim areas successful North America that person small to nary publication entree for residents. So far, much than 1,800 boxes person been sent nether the Impact Library Program.

Little Free Library hopes to grow the inaugural with the summation of Hawaiian, Canadian, and Alaskan representatives.

Find much quality and stories of involvement from the publication satellite in Breaking successful Books.