HYDE PARK — Kenwood Academy has met its fundraising goal to build five miniature libraries in Hyde Park and Kenwood.
The students from the National Arts Honor Society at the school at 5015 S. Blackstone Ave. raised $1,410 to build five Little Free Libraries, where people can take a book or leave a book.
“We want to bring positivity to our neighborhood as well as begin to improve our city's literacy rates,” according to the students’ GoFundMe page. “Our main goal is to provide our beloved community with the simple ability to take and leave books for each other.”
The little libraries look almost like mailboxes, offering a selection of donated books from a small cabinet suspended on a pole.
The idea has started to pop up in Hyde Park, with the Seminary Cooperative Bookstore also planning to build some of the miniature libraries.
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