Little Free Libraries

In 2017, the Library spearheaded a project in the community to plant Little Free Libraries throughout the Village of Morton. The project began with Chloe Schonert’s Passion Project, in which she built a Little Free Library and placed it across the street from Eli’s Coffee Shop on Jefferson Street.

In June 2017, a Little Free Library built by the Morton Woodworkers Club was placed at the Morton Pool. This has proved to be quite popular with swim team members and gets lots of use during the summer. 

Jefferson School built and placed a little free library on school property. On the LFL map they state, “this little library was made possible by our PTO and the family of Mrs. Alice Van Etten, who taught second grade for 23 years. Thanks to Former Patriot Max Vhalos and his partner, Kraig Schick, who constructed our little library box and our grounds, maintenance and custodial crews who put everything together.” 

A donation was given to place one at Oakwood Park in the fall of 2017. 

A group of community neighbors built and placed one in the Hyde Park Neighborhood that was dedicated in the summer of 2018.

Bethel Lutheran School students built two as part of their Making a Difference Project. One was placed at the Memorial Plaza in 2017. The other was installed on Bethel Lutheran Ministries’ property along Queenwood Street in June 2018.

Morton Community Bank placed a Little Free Library in their Drive Up return area. 

You can check out the map of the Little Free Libraries to see where they are in town as Morton now has 9 little free libraries. https://littlefreelibrary.org/ourmap/