Chang Science Library has recently opened a “Little Free Library”: a shelf opposite the library entrance for people to share books, a kind of take-a-penny leave-a-penny tray for reading. The idea of the Little Free Library has spread across the nation and the world, with tens of thousands of registered sites for exchanging books — and now it’s come to Cook/Douglass Campus!
Another recently opened Little Free Library in the region, however, has attracted some press coverage with a new twist on the concept (pardon the pun). A “Little Free Fiber Library” in Philadelphia, maintained by the Wild Hand yarn shop in Mt. Airy, now provides a free yarn exchange for area knitting enthusiasts! While we’d like to think the Little Free Library at Chang is just as newsworthy, we’re not bitter about these cheesesteak-eating sweater-gifting needle-knockers stealing our thunder. (OK, maybe a little.) But if you’d like to exchange yarn through the Little Free Library at Chang, nobody’s stopping you — it’s there for people to share what they value with one another, and knitting and reading are both great ways to spend time and build community!
(And by the way, Wild Hand yarn shop, if you’d like to make it up to us, I’d accept a hand-knit Christmas sweater with notorious Flyers mascot Gritty‘s face on it. Men’s large, the scarier the better.)