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Open a Mini-Library in your village
One person, one rack and a single book is enough to begin. Choose what you would like to do and we will take you through it.
What you need
- A place people already walk past — a shop front, a gate, a tuition centre, a reading room, a clinic waiting area.
- Something that keeps books dry: a cupboard, a covered rack, a wooden crate inside a doorway.
- A notebook and a pen.
- One book to start with.
What we do
- Give your Mini-Library a permanent address like 691001a1 and a page of its own.
- Provide printable labels and a register sheet.
- List you so readers nearby can find you.
- Help you reach the people in your village who have books to give.
How the two work
- Donate Book. Give the address of the Mini-Library you are leaving it at and the title of the book. You get a six-character code to write inside the front cover, and from then on you can follow the book as it travels from reader to reader. Find a Mini-Library near you if you do not know its address.
- Open New Library. Accept the Captain terms, name your Mini-Library and give its postal code. It gets its own address immediately; add a photograph and it goes on the map.
Your village will fill it.
Once there is a Mini-Library with a name on the board, neighbours bring the books their children have outgrown and the novels they finished years ago. You are not asked to supply a library — only to start one and keep it tidy as it grows.
Both take a free account, so we can give your Mini-Library an address and keep track of your books. Create one in a minute.