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The Phinney Tool Library was started at the Phinney Neighborhood Association (PNA) in north central Seattle in 1978, and the Berkeley Tool Library was started in 1979 in Berkeley, California. [5] Many of these libraries were started with community block grants. [6] A variation of the tool lending library model began in Atlanta, Georgia in 1992.
The First Tool Library started in 1979 in Berkeley, California, and now there are more than 40 tool libraries in North America. [6] 2.Tool Lending library in Oakland, USA Tool Lending Library offers all kinds of practical tools as well as books, videos and DVDs. And it is free to Oakland, Emeryville, and Piedmont residents and property owners. [7]
On July 1, 2018, the Berkeley Public Library eliminated overdue fines for non-children's media; children's books were already fine-free. [8] The Tool Lending Library followed suit on October 3, 2022. [9] Also in 2018, Berkeley Public Library instituted the Easy Access Card, a library card available to persons without a fixed address. [10]
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The Oakland Public Library is the public library in Oakland, California. Opened in 1878, the Oakland Public Library currently serves the city of Oakland, along with neighboring smaller cities Emeryville and Piedmont. The Oakland Public Library has the largest collection of any public library in the East Bay, featuring approximately 1.5 million ...
(The Berkeley Public Library also has a tool-lending library at their nearby South Branch.) The Temescal branch of the Oakland Public Library operates this facility, which lends tools, free of charge, to library patrons for repairs and home-improvement projects. The Tool Lending Library also has instructional materials (books, videos, etc.) and ...
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Little Free Library in a Tokyo Metro station. The first Little Free Library was built in 2009 by the late Todd Bol in Hudson, Wisconsin. [9] Bol mounted a wooden container, designed to look like a one-room schoolhouse, on a post on his lawn and filled it with books as a tribute to his late mother, a book lover and school teacher who had recently died. [10]