“LITTLE FREE LIBRARIES” JOIN THE READERS: REFERENCE WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK

National Library Week is  traditionally  organized  and  spent  by  National  Library  in Armenia.  This  year  it  will  be  organized  on  April  15-22  which  will  present  the  visitors  a  program consisted  of   a  solemn opening, cultural  events,  readings,  bibliographic review,  films’  screening.  Such  kind of  events  strengthen  our  relation  with   book  and  reading,  national and world literary heritage  becomes  achievable  to  wider auditorium of  readers.
Dear  readers, we  present a  material  which  is  directly  connected  with  the  book  and  reading  and  will  be  an attractive  example  to  follow.
The  activists  of  American  “Little Free  Library”  national  movement  call the  readers  to  put up small shelved structures outside their homes where people can take books and leave some too. The result can be conversation, friendship and a sense of community.  These  libraries  join  people  of  different  specialties,  characters,  age  and  gender.
Jonathan Beggs wanted an easy way for his neighbors to share books.Using odds and ends of fiberboard and Douglas fir, the retired building contractor fashioned a hutch the size of a dollhouse. He gave it a pitched cedar-shingle roof capped with copper. The door, trimmed in bright red, opens to three shelves filled with books by Joyce Carol Oates, Tony Hillerman, James Michener and others. Below hangs a sign: "Take a book or bring a book or both."
In the half a year that Beggs' Little Free Library has perched on a post in front of his Sherman Oaks home, it has evolved into much more than a book exchange. It has turned strangers into friends and a sometimes impersonal neighborhood into a community. When a 9-year-old boy knocked on his door one morning to say how much he liked the little library, Beggs knew he was on to something  and  became a  participant  of  the  movement  which   started in Wisconsin,  when Todd Bol, who in the fall of 2009 landed on a way to honor his late mother, a book-loving teacher. He built a miniature wooden one-room schoolhouse.
Todd  Bol  friend  Rick Brooks  fell  in love  with  the  idea.  He  also made  a  number  of  such  houses,  the  information  was  spret  all  over  the  city, a  website  was  operated and  the  project  was  called “Little  Free  Library”.  
Each owner pays $25 to the Little Free Library, a nonprofit organization, for a sign and a number. The group's website features a locater map and photos of people attending grand openings for libraries.
It  turns  out  that  everybody  is  able  to  creat  such  libraries. In the  result “Little  Free Libraries” increased everywhere like mushrooms.  The  geography  of  these  libraries  was  enlarged  during  three  years.  They  appeared in India,  Mexico, Palestine and other  places
ASUE  Media  and Public Relations  Division