The Church of St Matthias and St James the Apostle and the Guelph Tool Library, a Transition Guelph project, would like your help with a sewing machine and materials collection drive called “Sew North”. We will be collecting materials at the church and the Guelph Tool Library from April 15 until May 12, 2018 and Read more about Sew North[…]
Come support the Guelph Seed Library and the Grow Garden by watching the movie Seed: the Untold Story and staying for snacks and a discussion about seed saving at Miijidaa afterwards. What is a Seed Library? A seed library is a collection of seeds where members can “borrow” seeds. This means they take a package/or a Read more about Seed: The Untold Story fundraiser movie screening[…]
The Guelph Tool Library and the Two Rivers Neighborhood Group invite the community to an indoor, garage-sale style event where they can swap their stuff with other participants on Saturday, march 17th from 12-4pm. Contributors can drop off donations ahead of time, during Tool Library hours from March 12th-16th. Participation in the swap is Pay-What-You-Can Read more about Guelph Tool Library and Two Rivers Neighborhood Group Stuff Swap[…]
The Guelph Tool Library is pleased to launch a new workshop series, Monday Night Makes. On select Monday nights from February 26-April 16th, we will be offering hands-on, affordable workshops that will help you learn new, practical skills using the supplies available at the Guelph Tool Library. All workshops require advanced registration, which can be Read more about New Workshop Series at the Guelph Tool Library[…]
Check out this interview we did for CFRU: http://archive.cfru.ca/onair/2017/11/02/CFRU933.20171102.120000.mp3 Spread the work and tell your friends what a bargain it is to be a member of the Guelph Tool Library!
The Guelph Tool Library’s recent crowdfunding campaign raised over $1200! That’s the equivalent of 30 annual memberships! We also continue to add about two memberships a week to our growing tool library family, getting us well on our way to 250 standing memberships which will make the Guelph Tool Library self-sustainable. A whopping big “thank-you” Read more about Crowdfunding Success![…]
Guelph Tool Library will be closed from July 27th until Aug 11th due to the move. Please join us for the open house at our new space (Tytler PS – 131 Ontario St) on Aug 11th from 6 to 8!
We had another successful Repair Cafe on Feb 18th at Tytler Public School, organized in collaboration with Two Rivers Neighbourhood Group. This was the 3rd Repair Cafe, organized by the Guelph Tool Library. We had 3 volunteers who were helping with mending clothes, one jewelry repair volunteer, 2 computer repair volunteers, 8 volunteers who were Read more about The third Repair Cafe on Feb 18th[…]
Our resident librarian is at it again! Brandon is conducting an innovative new type of research to inform us about how the tool library can improve. Would you like to do an information horizon interview??? Sound cool? It is! The whole process takes less than 30 minutes, it’s wicked fun, and your input will shape Read more about Shape Your Tool Library![…]
I had the opportunity to showcase the Guelph Tool Library at my practicum student exhibition last week. The event also took place at the University of Toronto iSchool alongside the Special Libraries Canada conference also happening at that day. I spoke to dozens of people about the challenges and solutions we’d encountered in providing this service Read more about Special Libraries Exhibition @ UofT[…]