Category Archives: Press

Earlier this month, the New York Times did a story on borrowing.  It featured the Berkeley Tool Library among other places that loan tools, toys, and expensive handbooks.  It’s a fun read. You can read it by clicking here.

In preparing our new website for launch last weekend, we read over a few years’ worth of old blog entries.  And in doing so, we came across this little gem of a video from October 2009 that, we think, deserves … Continue reading →

Today’s Metro newspaper featured our very own “Stacey Hendricks, head of the education committee at the West Philly Tool Library, which lends tools so you don’t have to break the bank buying new ones.” Nicely done, Stacey!

National magazine highlights the Tool Library. “As funding sources for new community programs and revitalization projects dry up, residents and civic leaders are devising new ways to make their neighborhoods more attractive. These programs… improve neighborhoods and boost city morale.”

“Home repairs made easier,” Philadelphia Metro (Sept. 8, 2010)

“When in Need: West Philly Tool Library,” Grid Magazine (Feb. 2009)

“Tool Library Solves Philly’s Problems,” willdo.philadelphiaweekly.com (April 7, 2008)

“West Philadelphia Gets a Lending Library — For Shop Tools,”  KYW Newsradio 1060 (April 5, 2008)

“West Philly Tool Library Celebrates Grand Opening: Tool Library on Woodland Ave loans tools to local residents,” Southwest Globe Times (March 27, 2008)  

“Check it out: A community tool library,” Philadelphia Inquirer (March 21, 2008)