University City Tool Library Aims to be Up and Running in a Year

Have a small house project, but don't want to shell out the money on tools?

Head to the University City tool lending library.

University City resident Alice Floros, who is helping spearhead the tool lending program, hopes to soon make that scenario a reality. 

"We hope to be up in about a year," she told University City Patch during a tool library potluck Saturday at Non-Park.

Floros said right now group members are studying other tool libraries across the country.

"How long it took them to get insurance. What tools would they have not added if they could have done it again. How they publicized themselves and what sort of things they do in the community."

Floros said this summer she hopes to figure out insurance and find the library a home.

"We hope to have a space sponsored by the City within the next year."

Floros said the tool lending program will work like a book library.

"You come in and sign for it and maybe there would be a deposit, a small amount, for something super expensive like a power washer. But otherwise it would be like take these 3 hammers, see you next week."

Floros said the tool library has endless possibilities .

"There are so many community projects that people could do if we just had that sort of store of things, and I'm really excited for youth projects."