Little Free Library Thrives at Carver Elementary

By wd55a

May 23, 2022

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Carver PTA President Becki Watlington, John, Cheryl and Izzie Freiburg, Carver librarian Kathy Osegueda, SMUSD maintenance supervisor Gil Cardenas and Carver Principal Michael Lin at the ribbon-cutting for Carver Elementary School’s Little Free Library on May 7, 2021. Photos courtesy of Carver Elementary School

The pandemic didn’t stop Carver Elementary School’s Little Free Library from flourishing.

A Little Free Library is a container that houses free books for exchange. This idea of sharing books started in 2010 in Wisconsin, where the first Little Free Library was installed outside Todd Bol’s House. Various cities and states in the U.S. and beyond have adopted the use of Little Free Libraries. Today, there are around 2,500 libraries around the world.

Each library needs a caretaker and many of them have been children, and since Carver’s ribbon-cutting last year in May, 5^th-graders Tim Zhang and Keira Shen have taken on that role.