Little Free Libraries As "Dead Drops" for the Free Flow of Information
I found this innovative Little Free Library at a local school. While many schools have discontinued their Little Free Libraries due to the polarizing times we live in, this one in Happy Valley, Oregon is going strong. I’m a fan of Little Free Libraries for their DIY creativity, reuse/recycling of materials and books, but also as non-commodified bastions of democracy and the sharing economy. I've built a few and am always looking for new ideas. Whenever I find one, I take a photo and then look inside. Sometimes I will drop a book, other times I might take one. I rarely take one since I often find the materials skew heavily into popular fiction, children's books and self help books. This is something that could change if we employed the "network" for other purposes In an age when our devices and our media are increasingly watching, recording and making money off our activity, they offer a place to find information that is “off grid...