Library of things

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Library of Things refers to collections of things other than books that, like books, can be borrowed for free.

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The rental of items is a field of the sharing economy . Similar offerings for toys have been known as the toy library since the 1970s . Providers of such a service are commercial "lending shops" or private initiatives, but public libraries have also expanded their offerings to include this field of activity. Libraries have "always stood for the practice of sharing and swapping" anyway.

Criteria for the items to be loaned are, for example, acquisition costs, the expected demand but also the integration into the loan system. There should be little maintenance and support. For example, who in April 2016 Goethe Institute in Bratislava and the Central and Regional Library Berlin (ZLB) established such a library in April 2016 in the sewing machine , soldering station , cordless drill , sports equipment such as Slackline or table tennis bats , Action camcorder or Bluetooth - Speaker , a home planetarium or a disco ball can be borrowed. In the youth library “Hoeb4U” of the Hamburg public library , for example drawing tablets , hammocks and tool boxes have been on loan under the name Stuff4U since 2017 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Najine Ameli: Libraries of Things as a new form of sharing. Pushing the sharing economy . In: The Design Journal 20 (sup1), 2017, pp. 3294-3304, doi: 10.1080 / 14606925.2017.1352833 .
  2. ^ Mark Robinson, Lindley Shedd: Audio recorders to zucchini seeds: building a library of things . Libraries Unlimited, Santa Barbara 2017, ISBN 978-1-4408-5019-6 .
  3. ↑ a b The library of things: what role do libraries play in the “sharing economy”? In: BuB - Forum Bibliothek und Information 68 (7), 2016, pp. 439–441, urn : nbn: de: 0290-opus4-157008 .
  4. ↑ Michael Knoche: The idea of ​​the library and its future . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2017, p. 7, ISBN 978-3-8353-3236-2 .
  5. ↑ Peter Just, Florian Wieland: From the disco ball to the home planetarium / The "Library of Things" at the ZLB in Berlin goes into regular operation . In: BuB - Forum Bibliothek und Information 69 (1), 2017, pp. 34–35, urn : nbn: de: 0290-opus4-140460 .
  6. ↑ Clara Simon: # Stuff4U - Library of Things in the Hamburg youth library Hoeb4U . Presentation at the 107th German Librarianship in Berlin 2018, urn : nbn: de: 0290-opus4-35768 .