Announcement for Haywood County Public Library:
Haywood County Public Library (HCPL) will be installing two Little Libraries in two different locations in Waynesville this October. Inspired by the Little Free Library movement, where small free-standing containers filled with free books have been installed everywhere from in front of people’s homes to parks to schools, HCPL hopes to spread a love of reading and advertise its free services to the Hispanic community in Haywood County, a population the library wishes to better serve.
HCPL’s Bibliotequitas (Little Libraries in Spanish) were built by long-time library patron William Rhodarmer, and painted by two local young Hispanic women, Marisol Garcia and Elizabeth Martin, under the guidance of their Girl Scout leader Marcia Tate as a Girl Scout community service project from Girl Scout Troop 30250. The Bibliotequitas will be filled with books for children, teens, and adults in both Spanish and English that anyone may borrow. Similar to how Little Free Libraries work, where people are encouraged to “take a book and return a book,” the Bibliotequitas will operate on the honor system, where borrowers will be entrusted to bring back any books they borrow from the Bibliotequitas for someone else to enjoy. This project was made possible by the Friends of the Library.
In partnership with the Waynesville Parks & Recreation Department, one of the Bibliotequitas will be placed near the soccer field at Vance Street Park. The other Bibliotequita will be located in front of the store La Mexicanita in Hazelwood. Everyone is invited to celebrate the installation of the Bibliotequitas on Monday, Oct. 5. There will be a brief ribbon-cutting event at Vance Street Park starting at 4 p.m., followed by a brief ribbon-cutting event at La Mexicanita at 4:45 p.m. If you can’t make the events, be sure to “check-out” a book from one of the brightly painted Bibliotequitas on your next visit to Vance Street Park or La Mexicanita! For more information, call (828) 648-2924.
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