The Little Free Library at 23 Lynnwood Drive, Vienna, where MC Augstkalns is the library steward. The Little Free Library opened on July 19. (Photo Provided)

VIENNA — A Little Free Library has opened on Lynnwood Drive in Vienna.

The Lynnwood Library opened to the public on July 19 at 23 Lynnwood Drive at MC Augstkalns’s front yard.

The date was chosen because it marked a 10-year anniversary.

Lynnwood Drive resident Fred Kafka and his daughter Kathleen Kafka passed away on that date 10 years prior. The library also is dedicated to Augstkalns’ father, Valdis Augstkalns, a lover of books, who died in 2021.

“I wanted to do something to honor these three people who were so important to me,” Augstkalns said. “Something that would have had a great deal of meaning to them and brought them joy.”

More than 180,000 Little Free Libraries have been established around the world to share books, bring people together and create communities of readers. The Little Free Library nonprofit organization has been honored by the Library of Congress, the National Book Foundation and the American Library Association and was named by Reader’s Digest as one of 50 Surprising Things We Love About America.

For more information, go to littlefreelibrary.org.