Getting Started

            Five Easy Steps
       to a Little Free Library
       in Your Neighborhood      

1. Identify a location and steward. 
2. Decide if you want to:

• Order a complete Little Library or kit from our online catalog. 
• Build it Yourself.  Make it official!.Get plans and instructions. 
• “Endow" for someone else (tax deductible!). Support Books for All in Africa, India or your community, Little Free Libraries for Small Towns or other initiatives.
• Honor someone or have a Memorial Library

3. Contact us.  Use the Contact Us form on the website.  Reserve an official number and style, supplies and access to books.     
4. Build Support

• Lead the way. Be the first to give to the Little Free Library G.I.F.T. (Give It Forward Team) Fund.

• Find a business or group sponsor

• Tell your neighbors and friends. Invite them over for a little house party or send them a note asking them to join you.  

5. When it is installed, celebrate! Send your photos and information to the website and get on the worldwide map!

Keep your Little Library full of books.  Protect it. Enjoy it. Feel great! 
P.S. Always support your public and school libraries!

         Your Group Can Benefit

Members of Wisconsin Literacy have set the pace by realizing that supporting a Little Library can help promote their activities as well.  We encourage them--and you--to include information on tutoring and literacy in every Little Library they support. 

Need something to excite your members and keep them engaged?  Each Library can serve as a distribution point for your information; clues for treasure hunts and competitions, answers to questions...and great reading!     

           Each Library Needs a Steward 

Stewards are the lifeblood of the Little Free Library movement. They are what make the difference between just a box of books and a Little Free Library that is valued and protected. 

As a Steward you will be able to choose a Library and locate it on your property, buy it, or help raise funds by sending neighbors and friends to a designated online site to be co-sponsors. 

Most important, you are the contact person for that Library. Your name and contact information goes on the listing on the Little Free Library Map of the World. You help make sure that it is safe, has lots of good books coming and going, and takes advantage of the Little Free Library network of like-minded people.  Your role is not to do everything, but to help find neighbors and friends who will see the Library as a service to everyone...their family, visitors and the community as a whole.