Library Science, Home Depot Style

The NYTimes is Covering a unique public library branch in Berkeley, California. The Berkeley Tool Lending Library, a branch of the library system started with a $30,000 federal community development block grant in 1979. Since then the budget has grown more than three-fold, and borrowers number in the thousands. Oakland and San Francisco also have tool libraries, and Portland, Ore., opened one last week, and there’s one in Grosse Pointe, Mich.