During an impromptu ribbon cutting ceremony the village’s mayor, board of trustees and others cut the ceremonial red ribbon to signify the box is open for business.

The Falconer Public Library gave a donation of books to start the new little library box book exchange.

“We were happy to donate books to get this started,” said Laurie Becker, The Falconer Public Library, manager.

“The new library box replaced an older one, which was created in the early 2000s as part of a local resident’s Eagle Scout project,” said Falconer Mayor James Jaroszynski. “It was made in the likeness of the Sant House right near it.”

Martha Zenns, Gil Lindahl, Ro Woodard and Laurie Becker flank the new, upgraded little library box which was made in the likeness of the adjacent Santa’s House.

Jaroszynski talked about how the remodeling of the library box was originally going to be a project for students in the Falconer Central School district, but Martha Zenns, and Gil Lindahl took over the project and how it was fully erected by Falconer’s Department of Public Works.

According to littlefreelibrary.org a little free library is also known as a public bookcase, book swap, street library or sidewalk library. However, the premise is all the same regarding the book containers. Little Free Library book-sharing boxes are open seven days a week, 24 hours a day and are freely accessible to all, removing barriers to book access. Moreover, the free little library program has become a global phenomenon with representation in 21 countries, 400 million books shared and a footprint of more than 175,000 little libraries erected- since the inception of the program in 2009 when Todd Bol of Hudson, Wis. mounted a wooden container, designed to look like a one-room schoolhouse, on a post in his front lawn and filled it with books – as a tribute to his late mother, a book lover and school teacher who had recently passed away at the time.