在2013年9月，早期儿童社区行动（CAEC）庆祝了邦尼斯的第一个“小免费图书馆”的开放。从那时起，这些小书盒在整个社区不断出现，这在很大程度上要归功于与邦纳斯高中的合作伙伴关系。

CAEC意识到需要让社区居民（尤其是年幼的儿童）更容易地获得图书，因此寻求与邦纳斯高中合作的机会，希望学生们能够制作一些小免费图书馆，并由社区居民来管理。学校全力支持这一想法，这不仅可以为学生提供很好的学习和技能培养机会，但也是向社区回馈的切实方式，通过提供一个持久的资源，方便邦纳斯周围的人们借阅图书。

2015年，布拉德·巴格纳尔（Brad Bagnall）的建筑班的学生们建造了九个新的小免费图书馆。这些图书馆在邦纳斯年度的斯坦皮德游行中引以为傲，作为联盟宣传每天向儿童阅读的重要性的一部分。

受社区居民对小免费图书馆项目的积极回应的鼓舞，CAEC今年再次与邦纳斯高中合作，获得了5个精美的小免费图书馆，其中一些甚至被涂成红色和白色，以庆祝加拿大的百年华诞。此外，今年该项目还扩大到了托马斯·B·赖利学校的学生们，他们制作了其中的两个图书馆。迄今为止，邦纳斯已经有超过17个小免费图书馆，其中包括一个最早的邦纳斯高中图书馆，现在它已经被安装在一辆自行车上，形成了邦纳斯独有的“书本自行车”。任何居民都可以借阅这辆车，将儿童图书送到整个社区的小免费图书馆。甚至还有一张地图帮助居民找到社区中这些美妙的宝藏。这个项目不断壮大！

这个项目在社区中产生了涟漪，我们非常感谢每个共同努力使其成为现实的人。

更多信息：CAEC: 社区中的小免费图书馆

​In September 2013, Community Action for Early Childhood (CAEC) celebrated the opening of Bowness's first Little Free Library. Since then, these little book boxes have been popping up all over the neighbourhood thanks, in large part, to a partnership with Bowness High School.

Seeing the need to make books more readily accessible to community residents (especially young children) the CAEC sought out a partnership with Bowness High School, in the hopes that students might be interested in crafting Little Free Libraries that would be planted around the community, and stewarded by community residents. The school whole-heartedly embraced the idea which would not only allow for great learning and skill building for the students but would also be a tangible way to give back to the community by providing a lasting resource that would provide easier access to books in and around Bowness.

In 2015, the students in Brad Bagnall’s Construction class built nine new Little Free Libraries. The libraries were shown off with pride at the Annual Bowness Stampede Parade as part of the Coalition’s work to spread the word about the importance of reading to children everyday.  

Buoyed by the enthusiastic response from community residents about the Little Free Library project, CAEC partnered with Bowness High again this year and received 5 wonderful Little Free Libraries – some even painted red and white to celebrate Canada’s centennial year. In addition, this year, the project was extended to include students at Thomas B. Riley School who crafted two of the five libraries. To date, Bowness has over 17 Little Free Libraries – including one of the original Bowness High Libraries which has now been mounted on a bicycle to create Bowness’s very own Book Bike. Any resident can sign out the bike and deliver children’s books to Little Free Libraries throughout the neighbourhood. There is even a map to help residents locate these wonderful treasures in the community. The project just keeps on growing!

This project has definitely created ripples in the community and we are so grateful to everyone who has come together to make it happen.

More Information: CAEC: Little Free Libraries in our Community