Monday, March 11, 2013

USA Today: "Public libraries have taken to lending all manner of weird and wonderful items"


Libraries offer weird things to draw new borrowers.  (USA Today, 3/6/2013)

Seed libraries
Seed-saver library sprouts in Richmond. (San Francisco Chronicle, 8/4/2010)
Seed lending libraries bloom.  (American Libraries, 4/6/2011)
Seed library opens at La Crosse Public Library.  (news8000.com, 2/23/2013)

(Not just) energy meters
Madison Gas & Electric has a long history of partnering with public libraries in its service area.  Some Dane County public libraries have been circulating energy meters for nearly 20 years.

Tool libraries
Berkeley Tool Lending Library inspires others. (San Francisco Chronicle, 11/17/2010)  The 31-year-old Berkeley Public Library institution - the oldest continuously running library of its kind in the nation - is more popular than ever and has helped turn the Bay Area into arguably the tool-lending capital of the nation. 

Cake pans.
Let Them Lend Cake Pans.  (6/14/2012)
Towns County Public Library, Georgia.
Ericson Public Library, Boone, Iowa.
North Liberty Community Library, Iowa.

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