Please join the Sustainable Libraries Initiative (SLI) for a presentation by Tom Llewellyn of Shareable. Learn about their resources for helping people share (almost) everything and their plans for the future.
While traditional school, academic, specialty and public libraries are critical access points to local, resilient, and sustainable futures, we also can’t do it alone. Check out how Shareable’s articles can extend your communities’ role in the sharing ecosystem.
Are your patrons asking for a disaster response library? You may want to share the Emergency Battery Network Toolkit with them: https://www.shareable.net/toolkit/emergency-battery-network/ Want to lend some tools and run some swaps, but now need to encourage your patrons to create their own street shares for larger items like electric snowblowers, leaf vacuums, wood-chippers and lawn mowers? Give them the skills to make it with Shareable’s How-to guides: https://www.shareable.net/how-to/. Wish your community had a tool library outside of your traditional library system? They have a kit for that: https://www.shareable.net/programs/library-of-things/.
- Are your patrons asking for a disaster response library? You may want to share the Emergency Battery Network Toolkit with them: https://www.shareable.net/toolkit/emergency-battery-network/
- Want to lend some tools and run some swaps, but now need to encourage your patrons to create their own street shares for larger items like electric snowblowers, leaf vacuums, wood-chippers and lawn mowers? Give them the skills to make it with Shareable’s How-to guides: https://www.shareable.net/how-to/.
- Wish your community had a tool library outside of your traditional library system? They have a kit for that: https://www.shareable.net/programs/library-of-things/.
Traditional libraries can’t do it all, but together our communities can build a dense and wondrous sharing ecosystem, where we all gain more. Join us to learn how, together, we can provide access to more resources in an economically feasible, socially-equitable and environmentally-sound way. Sharing works.
