Repost From a Local Group: Tool Lending Library

Reposting this to Discussions from the DIY Vancouver Group. Seems like a cool idea, wanted everyone to see it, not just the people in Vancouver:

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Hello, I'm Jared Bachynski. I came across this site from a recent David Eaves blog post, and thought I'd mention an something that I would love to see implemented in Vancouver: a Tool Lending Library.

See here for Berkeley's implementation of the concept:

http://www.berkeleypubliclibrary.org/about_the_library/neighborhood_bran...

Naturally, this is taking the DIY of DIYcity a little too literally; worthwhile enough to mention, nevertheless.
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I don't think that's taking the DIY of DIYcity too literally at all. I don't think there's any such thing as taking the DIY too literally - question is more "how literally can you take it?

Original post here:

http://diycity.org/diy-vancouver/tool-lending-library