Tag: Built Environment
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The Library of Things Toolkit: A comprehensive resource to help create thriving community sharing hubs
It was just a couple of years ago when a small group of friends had the idea to start a tool library (also known as a Library of Things) in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, U.S. The idea was exciting, but creating a thriving sharing hub felt daunting. So they began looking for available resources to help them…
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Preserving Palestinian culture during genocide: the Phoenix Library of Gaza
More than a year ago, a donkey cart wound its way through heaps of rubble in Gaza. Three young men brushed ash from burned book covers and stacked salvaged volumes onto the cart, racing to save them from Israeli airstrikes and neighbors trying to burn them for fuel, unable to access cooking fuel due to the…