Friday, June 18, 2004

Tool Time @ your library!!!

Add power tools to the list of ways to get more men to use the library. (found link via boingboing.net) Kevin Kelly -- Cool Tools: "A decade ago some community librarians in California initiated a great idea: why not lend tools as well as books? The idea slowly spread to a couple of dozen other US towns, but the most active and well-stocked tool libraries are still in the Bay Area -- one in Berkeley, Oakland and San Francisco. The typical tool lending library offers basic hand tools, and a selection of garden, landscaping and construction tools."

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I've actually been to the Tool Library in Oakland-- good friends of mine live nearby.

-DA