Tool Lending Library
Why is this important
Sharing economy. Giving homeowners and renters the ability to help maintain their own places without the expense of having to buy or rent tools.
Like the network below, they offer no-cost or low-cost access to home and garden tools, kitchen tools, books, toys and games, sewing equipment, and other material goods that, for a variety of reasons, may not be practical for a household to buy and maintain. Tool libraries often offer classes and workshops and are sometimes coupled with communal workshop spaces or makerspaces.Likewise, other shared spaces like sewing stations, shared kitchens, hackerspaces, and technology labs offer tools and places to complete do-it-yourself projects of all types. Lending libraries are generally administered in one of three ways: as a program of a local government agency, as a program of an existing non-profit organization, or as a standalone non-profit organization.
The North Portland Tool Library (NPTL) is an example of a prospering tool library. Serving residents in North Portland since 2004, NPTL had approximately 5,000 members as of 2014 and had 7,364 tool loans in 2013, which the library estimates saved users $447,205 or approximately $60 per tool loan.
https://sustainableconsumption.usdn.org/initiatives-list/tool-lending-li...
video of Berkeley https://youtu.be/kSyulV00xuM
https://www.berkeleypubliclibrary.org/locations/tool-lending-library