The Blue Water Reading Council has a goal of placing 25 Little Lending Libraries a year for outdoor public locations across St. Clair County for the next five years. The Council hopes to add significantly to those numbers and make it easy for students and their families to pick up books to read, especially over the summer months.
Jennifer Evans, Assistant Director of Language Arts at St. Clair County RESA, said, “It’s a simple idea: Put these little libraries here and there and make it inviting for people to pick up a book.”
The little libraries are a team effort at RESA. The wooden boxes housing the books are built by Construction Trades students at RESA’s Technical Education Center. They are painted by students in the RESA-chartered Virtual Learning Academy’s Transition program and the libraries are then filled by the Blue Water Reading Council. For more on the little lending libraries visit sccresa.org
