News from the Workbench

  • Starting with Donated Tools

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    Before the Cville Tool Library opened our doors in March 2022, we held tool donation drives. We heard from many of our neighbors and friends that they had tools of all kinds, languishing in basements and garages. These donations became the foundation of our new tool lending inventory.

  • How to start a tool library – Charlottesville edition

    How to start a tool library – Charlottesville edition

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    Our roadmap has been: Find people who share your vision — and start.  That’s pretty much what has happened to get the Cville Tool Library up and running. What started out as an email thread in the early days of the pandemic quickly progressed to multiple brainstorming meetings, and along the way several new folks…