Little Free Library Launches ‘Action Book Club’ to Inspire Community Service

By Cat Johnson, Shareable

Recognizing the power of Little Free Libraries to transform communities, the Little Free Library organization recently launched the Action Book Club. The book club is like any other book club in that it brings people together to read and discuss books — what makes it unique is that it encourages its members to take a positive action in their communities.

How Libraries are Boldly Innovating to Meet the Needs of Changing Communities

By Anna Pratt, Shareable

The Lafayette Library and Learning Center is one of many libraries around the U.S. and the world that are reshaping themselves, inside and out, to meet the changing needs of their communities.

Fishing in the Haig-Brown Library

By Andrew Nikiforuk, The Tyee

In the 1950s the celebrated writer and conservationist Roderick Haig-Brown and his wife Ann, a school librarian and fiery Catholic, built one such wordy paradise in their home by the Campbell River on Vancouver Island.