Take a book…….return a book  Little Free Library Take a book…….return a book 

What a Great Idea! Last year our 3rd/4th graders (Graduating classes of 2024 and 2025) studied about the power of reading and learning. They discovered that books are not available to everybody all the time and they wanted to change this----which inspired the Little Free Library. While we are fortunate to have a nice school library, and now local library services twice a week, we wanted to make books available to our community 24/7.

Phase One At the 2016 Westmoreland BBQ, we had an open house to let the community know about Little Free Libraries. Jeremy Lehning helped us get this together in time for the BBQ. Little did we know that Bob Krohn and Aaron Keller would turn this into an amazing Little Free Library!

A sturdy metal frame to hold the bench and library. Construction Begins A sturdy metal frame to hold the bench and library.

Bench Completed Back view of the completed cedar bench.

Bench Completed Side view of completed cedar bench. Waiting for top shelves to hold the library books.

Bench Completed Front view of the bench. Next phase will be the addition of the library shelves.

Completed Little Free Library! Front View of completed library! Notice the wagon wheels on the sides.

Little Free Library Side view. There is a wagon wheel on each side to go along with the Oregon Trail theme for Westmoreland.

This is where the Little Free Library sits today! Ta Da!!!!!! This is where the Little Free Library sits today! It is located between the bank and the funeral home building on Main Street.

A Few Books in the Picture Book Section Notice the custom sign that the Service Club donated money for us to register the LFL.

A Few Books in the Adult Section Notice the flyers on the bottom shelf that explain how a LFL works.

A Few Books in the Children’s Chapter Book Section Notice the basket of bookmarks we will try to keep stocked for all to use. 

Students checking out books!

Little Free Library Field Trip!

Logistics of the LFL Total Cost was $440.07 Donations from Jim Moore, Westmoreland Service Club, and Westmoreland Elementary School paid for the cost of building and registering our Westy LFL. Time spent designing and building was done by our talented City employees, Bob and Aaron.

www.littlefreelibrary.org Click on the word “MAP” in green at the top.

Little Free Library in Westmoreland, KS is on the map!