The Small Free Library initiative or the Small Free Library of Light was established in 2009 in the state of Wisconsin, USA, in 2009, and then quickly spread around the world with the aim of stimulating creativity, expanding the passion for reading, and engaging the environment in this stimulating, positive and useful activity that helps communication and achievement. Familiarity between neighbors and residents and strengthening ties within this newly created space, which brings everyone together and brings them closer to each other.
The initiative was shy in its inception, but when the association turned into a nonprofit organization in 2012, the initiative began to gain significant momentum and popularity in the United States and elsewhere.
Today, there are more than 150,000 free small libraries in more than 100 countries and on all continents of the world. More than 250 million books have also been shared through the Little Free Library Network. This initiative is based on a basic principle, which is take a book, leave a book and read a book.
The phenomenon of the old public telephone scams that have turned into free libraries spread in the streets and squares of cities and their suburbs, and have been shown on posters calling people to borrow what they want to read from the books on display and donate what they have finished reading, in order to give others the opportunity to enjoy it as well, and to enable everyone who has not They get addicted to the act of reading, from passersby and residents, from borrowing books that you provide for free, especially the young and unemployed among them, who made them popular places they used to visit and became like official members of it, because of its many advantages, the first of which is free, and what added to my surprise is what He is known by these phone depots/libraries, due to the great turnout, and the dizzying movement of the entry and exit of large numbers of reading lovers, of all shades and ages.
Those old telephone booths or boxes made and installed of used materials and panels for dismantled and erased furniture that were transformed by the wonderful humanitarian volunteer efforts into free public libraries, were able to embody, in practice, with self-resources and without funding from any party, the slogan “Reading for All”.
In many cities in the world, you see municipalities and voluntary associations competing in a frantic volunteer race, to establish a lot of free street libraries in many streets, paths, parks and squares opposite homes, cafes, and large shops, and even the individual and voluntary efforts of individuals who embody these The idea is to serve the same goal by expanding reading, spreading the benefit, and spreading the spirit of knowledge, learning and education.