According to Connie Daughty, library director, one of her senior patrons informed her that they didn’t have a lot of book selection at the senior services center, and she decided that she could help with that.

Between Daughty and the center’s assistant director Tasha Norton, the Chester library sent around 58 book titles over to the center. The majority of them are either paperbooks or duplicate copies, Daughty explained.

Romance, mystery and western titles appear to be the favorites, but she forwarded over a mix for their use off their four book exchange racks in the front of the library.

While one needs an active library card to check out one of the other titles, no card is needed for the book exchange books as those are basically library discards.

Norton said that the center has a book club that meets at 1 p.m. the first Monday of the month and they seem to be making good use of the books.

Think of it like Little Free Libraries but indoors, as there are too much abuse of the box and contents associated with the LFLs, explained Daughty.

She would like to eventually get several secure indoor locations to host the book exchanges, so she has the ability to rotate the exchanges’ contents.

Anyone interested in hosting an indoor book exchange location can reach Daughty at 304-387-1010.

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